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Can Ripit rip 2 dvd's at once?

sparkie1984

sparkie1984

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Hi guys,

I am just wondering if I can use Ripit to rip 2 dvd's at once? I have a stack to get through and my macpro does have 2 superdrives.

I have tried but the window goes all weird like its doing 2 but under one screen if that makes any sense and I didn't want to risk ruining them and having to redo them.

Thanks for any help
 
Yes it can. I have used RipIt to rip a lot of dvds so I could do large batch encodes in Handbrake. Try using the eject when done setting to help keep the drives straight (as in which drive finished and which is still working) when doing a lot of disks.
 
Thanks guys,

I did open the separate tray whilst the other one was about 60% done, but it didnt open a new window and seemed to morph the two together.

I wonder if it was a one off problem then.

I will give it another go thanks
 
sparkie1984 said:
Thanks guys,

I did open the separate tray whilst the other one was about 60% done, but it didnt open a new window and seemed to morph the two together.

I wonder if it was a one off problem then.

I will give it another go thanks
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I think that you have to make a duplicate copy of the app. Command-d

Then you have two apps in your app folder, "RipIt" and "RipIt copy"
Launch them both, maybe the copy after your processing the first DVD so you know which drive the copy app will talk to.
 
Has anyone tried more than 2 at once? I am thinking of getting a mac mini as dedicated ripper... would be cool if I could rip 4 dvds at once.
 
dukebound85 said:
I have done 3 at one if that helps




Handbrake and RipIt achieve two entirely different goals..
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I am fairly sure that you can make ripit achieve the same thing that HB does. Pipit can be used to rip or rip and encode. HB rips and encodes or just encodes. I don't know much about rip it though.
 
theSeb said:
I am fairly sure that you can make ripit achieve the same thing that HB does. Pipit can be used to rip or rip and encode. HB rips and encodes or just encodes. I don't know much about rip it though.
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HB does not rip, merely encodes

RipIt will rip and encode, though the options for encoding are very pale in comparison to HB
 
dukebound85 said:
HB does not rip, merely encodes

RipIt will rip and encode, though the options for encoding are very pale in comparison to HB
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I normally use makemkv and then HB on the mkv files, but surely when you use HB with a DVD then it essentially rips first and then encodes, unless I am missing something? :confused:
 
theSeb said:
I normally use makemkv and then HB on the mkv files, but surely when you use HB with a DVD then it essentially rips first and then encodes, unless I am missing something? :confused:
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Not to my knowledge, though if you know how to get it to output the raw ripped file then I would love that. My experience is you can insert a DVD, then you set the encode options and let it out put an encoded file.
 
Handbrake only encodes. It will encode directly from the DVD which may look like it rips and encodes but it doesn't. The main benefit of using a ripping program like RipIt (OS X) or DVDShrink (Windows) is that you can queue up a lot more movies into Handbrake and not worry about changing disks out as they finish.
 
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