Int@rim 0 Posted January 19, 2003 Can anybody tell me something about the procedures that happen during Audio- and DVD-Ripping? Is Ripping likely to damage a DVD-Drive or is the loss of three of my DVD-Drives in just 11 months purely accidental? What the f*** actually does DVDx 2.0 when it rips a DVD, and can this be dangerous to certain drives or DVD-ROMS in general. Waiting for ya competent answers. Greetz! ;( Share this post Link to post
adamvjackson 0 Posted January 19, 2003 Well, technically speaking, all that any DVD ripper does is decrypt the CSS encryption and copy the decrypted files to your hard drive. As a result, there is a lot of disc reading going on... With regards to three drives failing within 11 months... Were these new drives, and if so, did you follow the warranty/rma process? Just how many DVDs and CDs were you ripping? Share this post Link to post
Mr.Guvernment 0 Posted January 21, 2003 Also, what type of driver where they? As above - if you are constantly ripping dvds - a few a day, then you are likely over using your dvd drive as most are not really made for that much strained usage over and over and over in a shoret period of time. Share this post Link to post
Int@rim 0 Posted January 31, 2003 It's not like I'm ripping ten DVDs a day, I think in a matter of a year I ripped about 25 Movies and 20 CDs with those drives. The used drivers are the normal windows xp stan. drivers, but there's also an adaptec aspi installed. The fact that brought me the idea, that maybe the ripping could cause the failures is the following: the special running modes that any drive has, lunsed for playing audio-cds, video-cds and dvds seem to be the most damaged parts of all. You can still copy data, but slower. And you can still rip movies properly. It just looks like the special reading-modes are damaged, which I thought are used for ripping in general. Share this post Link to post
