Re: Possible to do multiple simultaneous rips (not encoding, ripping)?

Michael Mauch <[email protected]> Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:45:23 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.grip.user
Message-ID <20080323184047.GA5373@elmicha>
Steffan Watkins wrote:

> I really appreciate the SMP support in Grip, on a Quad Core AMD it
> really smokes - but the item that still takes the longest is the rip
> off the CD itself. Is it possible to set up multiple simultaneous rips
> at the same time, off separate CD-Rom drives? If I could throw in
> several CD-Rom drives in the same machine, I could really speed up the
> slowest part to the ripping process, the CD-Rom hardware itself.

You can use "grip --config=..." to use a second config file which uses a
second CD-ROM. So it should be possible, but I never tried it.

Regards...
                Michael

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