I just bought a Pioneer DVR-112D, which is a very highly-rated DVD burner if you read user reviews.
Of course, I tried it out for ripping. I'm floored. It is blazing fast, ripping most tracks in 10-15 seconds, so fast that my Core 2 Duo E6600 couldn't keep up with encoding. And it's very quiet for how fast it's spinning. A couple of observations though: - the last track always has errors. I'm thinking this might be because the disc is wobbling and the wobble is most apparent at the outer edges of the disc. - the drive does not slow down when it encounters errors. The reading slows down: the ripping program reports this and the drive access light starts to pulse rather than stay on continuously, but the drive is still spinning at maximum speed. This seems to be a Pioneer thing: my old Pioneer DVD-120 did the same thing. It makes for increased noise and it may be contributing to the wobble problem, see above, but at least it's quieter than the DVD-120 when ripping. In contrast, my old regular ripper, the LG GCE-8123B, would slow down rotation when it encountered errors, but it was a much slower ripper. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=37868 _______________________________________________ ripping mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/ripping
