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<blockquote data-quote="jfenton" data-source="post: 73678"><p><strong>Let see why this is bull</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Make no mistake about the speed of the mac mini. It may be slower than other macs, but its speed in ripping moving or other processes is dependent on the software you use. I have never used any of the mac software that this guy used, but let me explain what I do know. Mac the ripper is a ripping program, that is all. It allows you to copy a movie to a harddrive. DVD2OneX is a compressing program. It will compress a copied movie. Toast is for burning. Now comes the real distinction. DVDShrink (which I use quite often) is often referred to as a transcoder. It allows DVD ripping and compressing on the fly that is why its so fast on a PC. Its not that the mac is slower your just using more programs. If you assume the ripping and transcoding (as in DVDShrink) is a simultaneous process with no compremises in time. The time to rip and transcode (25minutes for a mac) and burn is actually 1 minute faster than a pc.</p><p></p><p>So to sumerize, the mac is not slower at dvd ripping you just used more programs. That does not make it slower.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jfenton, post: 73678"] [b]Let see why this is bull[/b] Make no mistake about the speed of the mac mini. It may be slower than other macs, but its speed in ripping moving or other processes is dependent on the software you use. I have never used any of the mac software that this guy used, but let me explain what I do know. Mac the ripper is a ripping program, that is all. It allows you to copy a movie to a harddrive. DVD2OneX is a compressing program. It will compress a copied movie. Toast is for burning. Now comes the real distinction. DVDShrink (which I use quite often) is often referred to as a transcoder. It allows DVD ripping and compressing on the fly that is why its so fast on a PC. Its not that the mac is slower your just using more programs. If you assume the ripping and transcoding (as in DVDShrink) is a simultaneous process with no compremises in time. The time to rip and transcode (25minutes for a mac) and burn is actually 1 minute faster than a pc. So to sumerize, the mac is not slower at dvd ripping you just used more programs. That does not make it slower. [/QUOTE]
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