Re: Re: Call for partecipation!

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.