Faster DVD ripping on slow comp

[Aonghus]

Sorry to be starting yet another thread - a consequence of trying to solve everything at once, I suppose.

 

I have quite a slow computer with an AMD k6 (500Mhz) processor and 256RAM. I want to rip some DVDs with Acid rip, since I can play avi files quite well, but DVDs are somewhat jerky. I do have it working, but wondered if anyone has any hints on speeding it up?

 

I have only tested it with a 30 sec. video (the intro to a DVD), and this ripped at about 5fps - which means taking 5 seconds per second of video.

 

I saw it suggested that enabling DMA helps CD speed, but I have it enabled already.

 

Is this just the best I can manage with these specs, or is there anything that might improve it?

 

While I could use it as is, it's not a whole lot of use if it's going to take over seven hours to rip an average length DVD.

 

Thanks,

Aonghus

 

 

P.S. In a similar vein, any suggestions on software for burning avis to VCD (I have a CD-RW and DVD-ROM drive, but no DVD burner)? I'm not entirely sure what the format of a VCD is, but I gather they are done in AVI. Perhaps this can be done in one fell swoop, with a DVD in one drive and a CD in the burner? Oh, wishful thinking...:)

[devries]

There are 2 things that you are doing: the ripping (copying) and transcoding (turning the mpeg2 from the dvd into a divx or something like that).

 

Th copying can be done pretty fast. It just depends on the speed of your drive and harddisk. The transcoding will take an awfull longtime because it is very dependent on processor speed and power.

 

For dvd to vcd use k3b

[aRTee]

500MHz K6 with 256MB ram should be fine.

 

Did you try mplayer?

What kind of video graphics do you have?

Does it play fine if in a window, and choppy when fullscreen?

Does hdparm confirm you have dma on?

 

Lots of questions, without the answers there's too many things that may go wrong here...

[Aonghus]

Thanks for the responses.

 

I've tried mplayer and it is choppy both in window and full screen (I used Kmplayer GUI)

When I try it from the command line (mplayer dvd://) it won't work at all, I think because of the sound (I've tacked the output onto the end of this message).

Xine/Kaffeine will only play sound for a few seconds at the start, so perhaps there is something wrong with my sound setup?

Looking in HardDrake tells me the following:

 

Souncard description: Sound Blaster AudioPCI64V/AudioPCI128

I use the OSS with the es1371 module.

 

Should I use alsa instead, or does it matter?

 

Video card description: ‎Rage 128 VR AGP 1x/2x

I'm afraid I don't know how to check any further specs on the videocard...

 

Hdparm gives the following for my DVD drive, so DMA must be on. Is anything else here relevant?

 

/dev/cdrom:
HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Invalid argument
IO_support   =  0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq    =  0 (off)
using_dma    =  1 (on)
keepsettings =  0 (off)
readonly     =  0 (off)
readahead    = 256 (on)
HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument

 

Anyway, maybe this info will help someone to pin the problem down? It would be nice to get DVD playback and ripping going.

Any suggestions would be very welcome,

 

Thanks

Aonghus

 

 

mplayer output (sorry to take up space with this if it doesn't give any useful info - but maybe it will help to discern the settings needed or some such? Should I get rid of the runtime CPU detection, perhaps?)

 

MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.4.1 (C) 2000-2004 MPlayer Team
CPU: Advanced Micro Devices K6-2 (Family: 5, Stepping: 12)
Detected cache-line size is 32 bytes
CPUflags:  MMX: 1 MMX2: 0 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0
Compiled with runtime CPU detection - WARNING - this is not optimal!
To get best performance, recompile MPlayer with --disable-runtime-cpudetection.


77 audio & 188 video codecs
Linux RTC init error in ioctl (rtc_irqp_set 1024): Invalid argument
Try adding "echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq" to your system startup scripts.
Opening joystick device /dev/input/js0
Can't open joystick device /dev/input/js0 : No such file or directory
Can't init input joystick
Setting up LIRC support...
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support.
You will not be able to use your remote control.
Playing dvd://.
Reading disc structure, please wait...
There are 19 titles on this DVD.
There are 2 chapters in this DVD title.
There are 1 angles in this DVD title.
DVD successfully opened.
Cache fill:  1.27% (106496 bytes)    MPEG-PS file format detected.
MPEG: No audio stream found -> no sound.
VIDEO:  MPEG2  720x576  (aspect 3)  25.000 fps  9000.0 kbps (1125.0 kbyte/s)
vo: X11 running at 1024x768 with depth 16 and 16 bpp (":0.0" => local display)
==========================================================================
Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Mpeg PES)
Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale...
Opening video filter: [scale]
The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec.
VDecoder init failed :(
Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b
Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm:libmpeg2 (MPEG 1 or 2 (libmpeg2))
==========================================================================
Audio: no sound
Starting playback...
VDec: vo config request - 720 x 576 (preferred csp: Planar YV12)
VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0)
Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect.
VO: [xv] 720x576 => 1024x576 Planar YV12  [zoom]
V:   0.1   2/  2 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 0%

Exiting... (End of file)