Rip speed 0,3x - once it was faster... [solved]

[mister_music]

Dear All,

first of all I want to thank the team for a great piece of software - if my problem will be solved one way or the other I will for sure buy the post-beta version!

My first tests with makemky 1.5.6 on my Win XP system were successfull: BD rip speed approx. 2 - 4x (I can't remember exactly, but speed was sufficient). After ripping a few BD's, the speed significantly dropped to 0,3x, i.e. 6 hours for a standard BD rip, just the main movie.
I noticed that on my dual core, one core is relaxing at 10% load, the other one runs amok at >90% load.

Some ideas/questions:
- Driver problem?
- I don't know if the change to makemkv 1.5.8. made a change?
- BD-ROM defect (although most rips are ok from quality point)?
- Background application problem (I already disabled Avira Anti-Vir, without effect)?

Reinstalling just makemkv didn't help.
Before reinstalling Windows and makemkv completely, I'd like to give other suggestions a try...

System data:
Athlon 4850 dual-core at 2,5 GHz
790GX chipset
4GB RAM
LG GGC-H20L BD-ROM
Win XP SP3
No AnyDVD or similar installed.

Thanks for your support!

Rolf

[skittle]

You can try a linux live distribution, or put it on a flash drive then try linux version of makemkv to rule out hardware issue.

[mister_music]

Thanks for the fast answer, but since I do not have any experience with Linux, this will be a timesucking job anyway, even with the guides and help in this forum...
I'll give it a try as soon as I have some hours off from my family.

Rolf

[setarip_old]

Hi!

Since you're running XP, it's possible/likely that your drive has been switched from DMA mode to PIO mode. If so, do the following:

In the Device Manager (via the Control Panel>>System>>Hardware>>Device Manager), you simply have to remove the applicable IDE channel (Click on "IDE...Controllers") and let your computer reset it to DMA as follows:
Right click on the pertinent channel in Device Manager
Click on uninstall
Reboot
After rebooting go back to Device Manager and change the setting to "DMA if available"...

[lochnar]

Not to jack the thread, but I have to say I have the same issue. Everything was groovy until the 1.5.8 update. Now I run at 0.7x and it takes about 4 hours to rip a BD, so something is going on. No DMA issues for me as I'm using SATA. No settings changes between 1.5.6 and 1.5.8. Also running XP Pro SP3 with an LG CH08LS10 drive.

[setarip_old]

@lochnar

Hi!

At the risk of sounding contrary, if you click on the following link you'll find many postings about DMA/PIO problems specifically regarding SATA drives:

http://www.google.com/search?q=sata%2Bp ... age=1&rlz=

[lochnar]

Naw... I think it may be my drive. I put it on my Mac and had the same problem. I'm taking the BD-ROM from my Mac and hooking it to my Win PC in a few minutes.

UPDATE: It's the drive.... crap! I guess it's been too heavily used.

[mister_music]

@ setarip_old

Man, you're great! My drive is working at 3,5x speed again, system load dropped to 20%!
I never would have expected PIO-Mode problems with SATA, but that was it.

Thank you all very much for your help!

Happy again,

Rolf

[setarip_old]

Man, you're great!

Glad to hear it worked for you ;>}