[mythtv-users] How long should a mythdvd perfect rip take?

Steve Hodge stevehodge at gmail.com
Tue Jun 27 20:51:40 UTC 2006


On 6/28/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
> On 06/26/2006 04:50 PM, Steve Hodge wrote:
> > On 6/27/06, Marco Nelissen <marcone at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> >
> >> Some DVD drives also are much slower reading movie-DVDs than they are data-DVDs.
> >>
> > I guess some drives must be slow at decoding CSS? Because otherwise a
> > movie DVD is just a data DVD with a particular directory structure.
>
> The drive doesn't decode it.  It's the CPU that decodes.  If the drive
> decoded it, it would be legal to play back DVD's on Linux in the US.

That makes sense. So why would a drive be slower at reading a movie
DVD than a data DVD?

Steve


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