Colin Nevin wrote:
> No just using hdparm manually, will leave the IDE DMA kernel patch till
> later, but am curious to see if the rip speed matches (or betters)
> windows rippers, though there is still the limiting factor of how fast
> your mp3 encoder (bladeenc) does it's job, the rip speeds you get on
> windows say 8.x to 12.x with WMedia is the speed of ripping and encoding
> into .wma format at once, but if I 'm unsing grip it matters little if
> my rip speed is 8.x when my encode speed is 1.4 though this improves
> once ripping is finished?!
All I've ever done is oggenc which I've never measured but seems
definitely better than 1.4x. With the DMA patch applied you should
be able to rip+encode at the same time, faster since the CPU will
have to do less work to get the audio off the CD.
> Anybody heard of any ripper/encoders in 1 ?
Hmm, well given the Unix philosophy of cohesive tools,
I presume someone has broken it:
Browsing for a minute shows that grip does both,
as does arson, crd, ... ?
> Mind you if you've used CDex on windows it's a great encoder (not a
> ripper), but it's slow as pig sh*t!
Hrm I thought CDex ripped (apparently (I've not used windows in years)).
Padraig
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