www.makemkv.com

Hi there,

First off, thank you for making such an easy to use piece of software.

I am in the process of converting my entire movie collection to digital format, so I have been using makeMKV a LOT

As a result, I am trying to figure out how to get my rips done faster.

I noticed that makeMKV seems to be capping at around 5x speed. My drive (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6827106325) should go up to 8x however.

How can I go about figuring out why I am getting capped at 5x?

I actually want to purchase a faster, 18x drive (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6827135224). However, if that is going to be capped at 5x also, then there is no point I guess.

Thank you
Les

You should have a look at your drive's firmware with mediacodespeededit.

I do not believe MakeMKV is the limiting factor here, between two mechanical harddrives it averages 80MB/s here.

I just wanted to post an update about this.

I have not yet used that tool to look at my drive's firmware. However, I have ripped a handful more movies and noticed that speeds seem to fluctuate. Some movies have reach speeds as high as 7.X or 6.X while others maybe only get to 4.X or 5.X.

My guess is that some movies just make the software work harder? If that is the case, does it mean I am bottlenecked at my CPU? I decided to just buy that drive anyways. I figure 20$ is worth a test

I will post back with my results.

Thanks again
Les

You should never have to guess if your CPU is maxed out. Just open Task Manager (press ctrl-alt-delete and select Task Manager) and look at the Performance page while you are ripping. If any of the CPUs are over 90% then you may be CPU-bound. Otherwise, no.

I also don't believe that the MakeMKV software is the limiting factor. I had a DVD that simply would not rip for whatever reason. So, I used DVD shrink without compression to make a Video TS folder. I then used the open folder selection from MakeMKV and loaded the vob files and used that to make an MKV file. The speed hit 25X at 33mb/s.

Hello again,

I picked up that new drive, and makeMkv is running much faster. Some DVDs are ripping at 12x or so.

So I guess it's just that some DVDs are slower then others and the drive won't ever reach it's advertised rates. However, a faster drive still works faster.

Thanks for the help everyone
Les

les_bloom wrote:I picked up that new drive, and makeMkv is running much faster. Some DVDs are ripping at 12x or so.

Which drive did you get?

testmetest wrote:

les_bloom wrote:I picked up that new drive, and makeMkv is running much faster. Some DVDs are ripping at 12x or so.

Which drive did you get?

I picked up this drive