My first rip!

[TheGreenOne]

Hey gang! I just got my firmware updated to rip UHD thanks to Billy's service. Thanks Billy!

Ripping my first UHD disk - NOPE. I mean, yep, ripping Nope.

Reading at about 8.9 M/s. I may be spoiled by more modern tech but is this speed "normal?" Looking like anywhere from about 3:30 to 15 hours to rip a disk although the remaining time is decreasing fairly rapidly.

Happy to have this working and definitely licensing the software once I get a proof of life. Going to set up a temp Plex server on my laptop and if that works I'm going all in with a server computer and some big spinny disks.

So far so good!

[Woodstock]

Speed of rip depends on many factors. A large one is, "Where are you reading on the disk?"

At the beginning of a disk, there is less data per rotation, but it increases as you get further out. The disk will only spin so fast (and that can vary with the available power), so it will read faster later in the rip.

When you hit the end of "side one", the drive slows down (under MakeMKV control) so that it can find the start of "side two", as well as when it transitions to "side three".

Let it rip for a while, and it will get faster.

[TheGreenOne]

Thanks DVD tech is so funny compared to what we have now.

[TheGreenOne]

This long rip time was an anomaly. Through the rest of my collection, the 4k disks ripped in about 45 minutes, blu ray in half that and DVD in about of of that. Probably a matter of codecs needing to be loaded in the background or something.

[dcoke22]

This long rip time was an anomaly. Through the rest of my collection, the 4k disks ripped in about 45 minutes, blu ray in half that and DVD in about of of that. Probably a matter of codecs needing to be loaded in the background or something.

It is a matter of data. A full tilt, dual layer DVD filled to brim with stuff to rip might be 8.5 GB. A regular blu-ray is typically either a BD-25 that can hold up to 25 GB of data or a dual layer BD-50 that can hold 50 GB of data. A 4K UHD might be a triple layer disc that can hold up to 100 GB of data (each layer holds 33.3 GB).

Reading nearly 100 GB of data from a 4K UHD just takes a lot longer than 8 GB of data from a DVD.