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Using 2 DVD Drives Simultaneously

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markho

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I was trying to burn a dvd with the original in one drive and the blank in another. Its still asking me to put in the disk into the original's drive. I used shrink, dvdx copy, and dvd Fab pro, all do the same. It also takes me like 1:30 minutes to copy one damn disk. This right?
 
System specs?

Re-encoding is very cpu intensive so that is likely where your performance bottleneck is. And unless youre using dual layer disks, there is no straight copy like CD's.
 
Does "1:30 minutes" mean a minute and a half or an hour and a half?

For DVD Shrink, when you click the "Backup" button, select the correct burner device from the "Select Backup Target" dropdown. That should be all it takes.

 
1 hour 30 minutes yep. i have a amd64 3000, 1gig, corsair, neo2 nvidia chipset msi mobo.
 
markho said:
1 hour 30 minutes yep. i have a amd64 3000, 1gig, corsair, neo2 nvidia chipset msi mobo.
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That isn't bad if its re-encoding, it probably takes me about that long if not a bit quicker to mencode 2-pass a movie.
 
dirtydr said:
System specs?

Re-encoding is very cpu intensive so that is likely where your performance bottleneck is. And unless youre using dual layer disks, there is no straight copy like CD's.
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Can this be done as easily as CDs when targeting a dual layer disc?

If I bought a new dual-layer DVD and wanted to make a backup to a dual layer disc, could I just pop one in each, and burn disc to disc like a CD, then have the burnt disc work in my DVD player?

For some reason I assumed you would have to DeCSS the original disc first, or is decrypting rather CPU-light work that can be done on the fly?
 
Use DVD Decrypter to rip the disc, should take at most 15 minutes to rip.
 
NulloModo said:
For some reason I assumed you would have to DeCSS the original disc first, or is decrypting rather CPU-light work that can be done on the fly?
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DeCSS is rather fast, yeah. Even the obfuscated Perl version is fast enough for realtime playback on my system ;) The DVD drive speed is likely the limiting factor in a pure decrypt operation, it's only 25 MB/s.

 
Dew said:
Use DVD Decrypter to rip the disc, should take at most 15 minutes to rip.
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But if I could rip and burn simultaneously that would be 15 minutes I save. And let's say I'm backing up a rack of 200+ DVDs, that's quite a lot of time in the long run.

Then again I guess after the first one I could rip one disc while I am burning the previous image, but that sounds sort of like a pain.
 
I have a AMD 3200 and if I am doing anything other at the time of encoding I notice skips sometimes in the finished product. Maybe a dual core processor would allow burning and ripping but I don't do two things at once on my 3200. As I look at my CPU usage ripping uses all my CPU and I think if you try to burn while ripping its only going to make things longer in both things. Not save time like you want.
 
I have 2 drives and burn/rip alot of dvds. If I get both drives doing something at the same time, there is some serious slow down and takes about twice as long.

I usually just do one at a time. Unless this is sometype of issue that can be fixed and I might start do 2 at a time.
 
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