I admit that I do most of my CD ripping with CDex on my win2k box. However, due to my win2k box dying yesterday (bad mobo I think), I have been using grip & ripperx on my mandriva 2006 box.

Ripping an average length CD takes about the same time as the CD length, ie - it is ripping at approx 1x. I tried grip, and ripperx and they are both ripping at around 1x.

I tried marking the Disable Extra Paranoia in ripperx, but that did not noticably speed things up.

What do I need to do to rip at a decent speed? BTW - on this same machine I used to use FC2, 3 & 4 and grip ripped fairly quickly, 5x-10x. Its only under my recent install of mandriva 2006 that I am having very slow ripping.

Try that one : sound-juicer, it is included in FC4

the point is, is that on the same machine: under FC, grip ripped fast, under mandriva 2006, grip rips super-slow. It has to be something outside of the actual program, and I'm asking what else it could be... I mean, I'm using the exact same hardware, including the same burner, now under mandy 2006 that I had for 2 years of FC. FC ripping was fast, mandy ripping is 1x... somethings not right.
Something with DMA, or... ?? I don't know much about that stuff under linux, yet...


Last time I tried sound juicer (its been a while) there was no choice of bitrates, just 128 (or even LESS), if you like it or not. I don't.

hi there,
yep. it could be dma.
in mandriva as root, check the output from
regards
slackie1000

thanks, but the other day I already tried the hdparm DMA check, and found out it was set to ON.

must be something else. Ripping under FC is fast, ripping under mandriva is 1x. Same machine, same burner.

the only time i had problems ripping CDs with ripperX or Grip was when i had a motherboard that used a VIA chipset, a couple of months ago i bought a new mobo that used a nVIDIA nForce2 400 chipset and the ripping problem mysterously disappeared (wierd but true)

Another problem with those f. VIA chipset...