Best way to rip tons of DVDs
What's handbrake? I use Freemake Video Converter (I'm familiar with that)
I always though ripping DVDs would automatically save them as .avi or .mp4...
Does it really take that long? crap.
Is it for the encoding or just the ripping?
yeah I already have 5 optical drives... I might be able to get a second computer, but that might make it (more) complicated
I'll have a FX8350 by the time I start doing this, so would I be able to take the HDDs that have the raw files and move them over into my main rig and do the encoding there? If it helps I'll have a CUDA-enabled GPU ( a low-powered one) in the system so I can use that...
Handbrake is a GUI that automates using some of the better encoding tools. It also have many very good tutorials and FAQ's done by experienced users.
How long it takes depends on the resolution and quality that you want the encode and what yo uwant it to play on.
OC that 8350 and it will chew through those videos. This is what that CPU's architecture is really designed for.
Hmm you seem to be confused by the different terms and what-so-ever internet is using lol.. (don't worry I sometime confuse myself also) but here is quick explanation that I found on google that is in my opinion quite accurate and simple
now that's a differences between "copy" and "ripping"... and you asked "Is it for the encoding or just the ripping?" and well you see it is kinda same thing... the main difference is ripping involves getting it from dvds/cds and then encodes but encode you can just encode your FRAPs movies which might be already in somekind of codec but the size is too big and impractical. Encode basically means you manipulate the data to the different form so that it is in a better format (lossless, have more compatibilities and/or smaller in sizes).
Now to the main question: does it really take that long? preeeetty sure... (I might of course be mistaken... I'm as mortal as you are lol but probably nooot~). Will the FX8350 helps? hell yea lol... compared to the system you posted it's gona be like an airplane racing against car.... but it will still take long... I however do not know if the CUDA-enabled GPU will help at all... (forgive me... I lack knowledge on this matter... I do know it helps rendering but encoding? not sure...)
Now that some other ppl has been replying as well that gives you more option (darn... more heads are better than one that's for sure lol). Someone above mention that you can save the dvds in "image" format and then encode them later to an better media format. This will bypass the physical limitation of optical drive that I mentioned earlier but I feel like this is doing an simple thing with overcomplicated methods... You see... if you really do as he says sure you get pass the physical limitation of optical drive but you're still limited by CPU power and somewhat to the optical drive since you still have to copy/save them in image first and then encodes them. Dont get me wrong though.. this method might really be the fastest way since it's a lot faster to encode the file on your drive than on the optical drive... But seen as you have 5 of them... and If you can rip on them simultaneously I doubt you gona gain THAT much of the speed...
ps. holyshit the amount of typos... I should go to sleep lol
to copy would be to make a second identical disc
to rip would be to make a image (iso) or folder that is an identical copy minus at least DRM
to encode would be to take a source and make it into a single file
to transcode would be to take an already encoded file and re-encode it to fit the device you want. (its always better to have the source and encode from it.)
you can encoding using nvidia in two different ways and with a Intel CPU but all of them are sub par to software encoding
Reading directly from the disc will slow the entire process down, especially with just 480p. His best bet would be to use his 5 drive to rip all the discs to his HDD then queue up encode for all of them and leave his PC on until it finishes it. Also your better off encoding one thing at a time so each one has access to all the threads then starting the next because its highly multithreaded. Also you do more then just encode from the source they are a bunch of things that have to be done and just accessing a disc directly takes far longer than any even somewhat modern HDD.
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