I actually tried both Rahul - with the same result.

Well..if this works…and if the copy works on an DVD player outside of my TR then I’d say -RW it is

oh well, sorry then :(  :(

You’re still my hero though

wow  

thank you TR :wink:

I’ve had my DVD burner for quite a while now, it’s a Sony internal 4x single layer burner (DRU-A500 I think), and using DVDX it takes me about 1.5 hours full copy. The reason it takes so long is the ripping speed. Using testing software, I found while ripping a DVD that the max read speed was 2.8x!!! Now the specs on the burner say that the read speed should be 12x so I’m a little confused as to why it only reads at 2.8x while it burns at 4x. Now, could anyone suggest any reasons? The only conclusion I can think of is that during the ripping process it needs the CPU to decode and recode the DVD because my CPU usage will be at 100% (this is on a P4 3.0gHz with HT). In short, what I think is that while reading the DVD to HDD, it also has to decode and recode so the process is long. Anyone out there can confirm if I’m wrong or right on that one? Thanks.

[quote author=“Tiffany”]I actually tried both Rahul - with the same result.

Well..if this works…and if the copy works on an DVD player outside of my TR then I’d say -RW it is

Tif, why are you using RW (whether it is + or -?).  I thought DVD+/-R was what was best for DVD viewing.

rw allows mistakes..? 

Umm, if that was a joke… I got it. 
If not…  :oops:  :ph34r:

I found this today and they have many links off of there dealing with the dif dvd formats… take a look…

http://www.webopedia.com/DidYouKnow/Hardware_Software/2003/DVDFormatsExplained.asp

Tif, your burner is rated at 4X; there is no reason that you should not get it with the right disk… good luck; thanks for the thread.  It’s been very edumbmakational por me.

Does anyone know the best way to view a DVD that has been saved to your hard drive?  Because of the way that DVD Decrypter and DVD Shrink save the files (numerous video_ts and audio_ts files) I am unsure of how to get the movie to start and stop as if it were a regular DVD… ie: interaction with the menu’s etc.  I don’t have a DVD burner and don’t feel the need to get one right now because I always watch them on my S anywayz.  So any info would be helpful. 
(BTW, which program seems to rip the DVD faster for you guys?  For me DVD Decrypter seems to even when ripping the entire CD while DVD Shrink is not even ripping the French audio track and it seems to take 10-15 mins more.)

Tiffany et all,
great thread - too bad I only have time to skim it, but here is my advice, as i think i have the same burner as Tif:  

First, I would only use Nero software supplied with the burner, with all the lastest updates applied - remove anyother burning / transcoding software.
to find out if you have the latest nero, just click on the nero logo upper left of the smartstart menu.

My exp. with ripping DVDs using the TR and the Sony burner is that it’s really slow (ripping/transcoding) that’s reformatting the DVD files into mpegs/avi. But to just copy the DVD from the sony dvd internal to the external should only take about 10 minutes. Also, burning movies from mpegs/avi’s is also very slow, and could take hours depending on length.  As mentioned earlier here, the -RW media seems to work better for consumer DVD players.

Well, thanks for the thread, lots of good stuff here and i am sure to check back as I in the process of taking my films/promos and burning to this very burner.

jigs

Try ripping with DVDShrink and see if it goes any faster. I can rip, analyize, reauthor, transcode, create ISO image and burn in around an hour. Perhaps the only difference in our systems is that I have 10Krpm SATA drives. With DVDShrink the rip is pretty much the drive speed. Transcoding is very memory intensive and I always have DVDShrink analyize the file to improve video quality/compression.

I also eliminate unnecessary background tasks. Virus checking, firewall, auto-updates…

I use dvdshrink to rip takes about 23mins. Then Nero to burn, (23mins).I have a really old slow burner though. (Aopen dvrw2412pro)
That is on my desktop with a +r/+rw burner.

On our tv we have a sony rdr-gx3 which burns both +/-RW but only -r? Anyway i found i had to finalise all the +rw so my tr could read them. Apparently i shouldn’t have to, but I did?????? Then (beat this) the only way I could re use the +rw was to use Nero to erase it?
God knows what mess we will get when we start using dual layer?

[quote author=“Mrs Gadget”]I use dvdshrink to rip takes about 23mins. Then Nero to burn, (23mins).I have a really old slow burner though. (Aopen dvrw2412pro)
That is on my desktop with a +r/+rw burner.

On our tv we have a sony rdr-gx3 which burns both +/-RW but only -r? Anyway i found i had to finalise all the +rw so my tr could read them. Apparently i shouldn’t have to, but I did?????? Then (beat this) the only way I could re use the +rw was to use Nero to erase it?
God knows what mess we will get when we start using dual layer?

ms. gadget, my sony burner acts that way too, but that makes sense, or is the drive in your tr a burner too? i didnt think that +rw could be read by non-writers.  the good news is that erase just takes a moment!
jigs

ms. gadget, my sony burner acts that way too, but that makes sense, or is the drive in your tr a burner too? i didnt think that +rw could be read by non-writers. the good news is that erase just takes a moment!
jigs

I have the original TR1! No dvd burner!
I thought the same as you and posted my problem with DVD reviewer Forum. If you read the replies you will see apparently we are wrong in our assumption (not practise)!
 

Quite a good site otherwise.