Jacob Meuser wrote: > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 02:30:18PM +0100, Peter Ueger wrote: > > > > Why would you want to do that? DVD drives are slow. Don't you rip your > > DVD with vobcopy or mplayer -dumpstream to your hard disc first? > > maybe, maybe not. do you really think two steps are necessarily > faster than one?
In my experience, copying to HD first extends the ripping time by exactly the amount of time required to dump to disc. I have also noted that nearly ALL user problems associated with ripping arise from people who have dumped first and then can't figure out how to deal with the dumped data.
