Ripping blu-rays... High End cpu needed?

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Yoosh

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I'm about to build a htpc/whs setup for access to my blu-ray/dvd collection. Right now I don't plan on shrinking the blu rays much, if any, more or less just a one to one copy made with AnyDVD HD and MyMovies and put in a .iso format.


My question is..... Do I need a high-end cpu or will something like a E5200 (wolfdale dualcore 2.5ghz) be more than enough?

-Yoosh

and btw I'm navy and currently in Europe anyone know any good online stores that ship to italy for cheap?
 
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Ripping? No

Re-encoding? No, but yes if you want one to finish in at least 12 hours.. ;)

The E5200 is plenty for just ripping.
 
Tolyngee said:
Anything's fast enough... if you got the time...
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this made me lol.....

got another quick question for you more experienced people out there.....

How long does ripping a blu-ray to .iso format take on average?
 
Yoosh said:
I'm about to build a htpc/whs setup for access to my blu-ray/dvd collection. Right now I don't plan on shrinking the blu rays much, if any, more or less just a one to one copy made with AnyDVD HD and MyMovies and put in a .iso format.


My question is..... Do I need a high-end cpu or will something like a E5200 (wolfdale dualcore 2.5ghz) be more than enough?

-Yoosh

and btw I'm navy and currently in Europe anyone know any good online stores that ship to italy for cheap?
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You can rip with whatever you want. I've ripped from a ESX VM assigned a single 2ghz core using a USB over TCP/IP solution w/external Blu-Ray at the worst. It works fine and takes about 2 hours.
 
How fast you can rip to an ISO is almost solely dependent upon how fast your blu-ray drive is at reading. I have the LG H20L that reads blu-ray and hd-dvds but doesn't write them, and it takes about 30 minutes to rip one. You can also modify the firmware of your drive with a program (can't remember what it is and I am not at home to look) to increase read and write speeds from 2X to 4X and so on. I modified my firmware and it helped a little but I didn't really time how long it took before.
 
Yoosh said:
this made me lol.....

got another quick question for you more experienced people out there.....

How long does ripping a blu-ray to .iso format take on average?
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That will depend on the speed of the drive you're using of course! :)

I use MakeMKV to rip only the main title/soundtrack (to save a bit of space) and the last disc I did took 42 minutes, start to finish.

edit: Killroy beat me to it
 
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