First time to use Mac the Ripper! Dambit it's slow.

[SteveJobs]

I've used DVDCopy exclusively. I thought I'd try MTR. I am ripping one with MTR and one with DVDCopy simultaneously at the moment.

MTR is a freaking dog.

Woof the Ripper

[Carthaigh]

Um. It is going to be very dependent on optical drive speed.

[SteveJobs]

I'm saying COMPARATIVELY speaking. Same hardware. MTR is noticeably slower. Apple to apples.

[Carm]

I am ripping one with MTR and one with DVDCopy simultaneously

You must be crazy, you'll blow up your Mac.

What's your setup specs? How about running MTR by itself? Most rips take 15-20 mins on my MDD Dual 1Ghz (slow and old) with an NEC DVD Drive. MTR version 3.13b

Carm

[SteveJobs]

I did run MTR by itself. But at the point of my post, I happened to be running them at the same time. But, that's the ONLY time I had done that.

G5 1.8Ghz

[Racer X]

I get in the 20 minute neighborhood with MTR 2.6.6 and a MDD duallie 1.25 dual boot machine and a LiteOn Combo drive in a FW case. If I use the built in Pioneer -106, it goes up to about 50 minutes. The pioneer has something called RipLock in the firmware that slows rip speed drastically, even though it has a decent read speed. I have a -109 in a FW case, and it is only marginally faster, despite the fact that it has a far faster read speed. It is the RipLock block.

However, if I have a troublesome disk that the LiteOn doesn't like, the Pioneer can do it most of the time, but much slower. The slower Pioneer speed gets past marginal spots on the disk that cause the fast LiteOn to hang up or report deliberate bad sectors.

Also, the reported time to complete a rip with MTR is usually off by a fair bit as the rip begins. As it has some of it completed, it comes up with a more accurate time. It can shoot up to well over an hour or two estimated if it slows down at a bad or marginal spot that it has difficulty reading. When it gets past that spot, and gets going, the time to completion gets corrected and comes way back down.

[SteveJobs]

Racer X

one of these days You'll have to explain your Sig to me.

[Racer X]

let's just say I mooned a bar in Cabo that night, as pennance for getting a trivia question wrong by just a tiny bit. The wife was worse, but that discussion is completely off limits here....

[SteveJobs]

I'll rephrase,

you'll have to PM me pictures to make it clearer to me!

[Racer X]

Uh, no. But there are pictures ;-)