It can still easily take hours if it's a whole movie you're copying and you're transcoding it into a more space-efficient codec.
BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Christ do I feel old now. CDs and DVDs are read only, so you won’t do anything to them by ripping them. It’s just a copy of the data onto your drive and then probably a compression step of some sort. Nowadays it probably takes less than five minutes for the whole thing. I remember taking at least half an hour on a 2x drive, and then mp3 compression taking another hour or so.
Timwi@kbin.social 8 months ago
theworstshepard@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Especially with Blu-ray
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
Holy shit, a 2x drive. I forgot that once was a cutting edge thing.
frunch@lemmy.world 8 months ago
How else were ya gonna play 7th Guest? With a 1x?!? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
SoleInvictus@lemmy.world 8 months ago
We had a 1x so it was too slow for Phantasmagoria. Instead of buying a new drive, my father picked up this terrible software that would write portions of the data to the hard drive when the game bogged down. It kind of worked but only after you went through it once, so whoever played the game after you got a smoother experience.
frunch@lemmy.world 8 months ago
That’s really cool! It’s a good example of what i like to think of as “transitional tech”–stuff that did the job, but as tech continued to evolve their usefulness phased out.
Aganim@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Or Wing Commander III, with its ludicrous 4 CD’s. 😱
s38b35M5@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Anyone remember the Kenwood TrueX drives? I was so in love with mine for a while, but it wasn’t always supported.
maynarkh@feddit.nl 8 months ago
I lived in a non-anglophone country when those were a thing, how do you pronounce that? “Twice” drive? “Two ex” drive? “Double speed” drive?
Boinkage@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m an American, I would say two ex drive.
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
You got no luck with me, I am not a native English speaker. In English I would call this “two ex” but now that I think of it in German we would say “two times”, or at least thats what I and my friends called it.
tyler@programming.dev 8 months ago
Both of those are fine. As a native English speaker I literally say both of those depending on my mood.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 8 months ago
“Double speed” and “two ex” both work, however it’s much, much more common to say “two ex” because of the fact that a lot of modern disc drives can read up to 52x for CDs.
cynar@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I’m a native English speaker, and all of the but the first get/were used. “Two times” would also be commonly used (at least where I grew up).
English is inconsistent as hell, even to native speakers. We are just better at hiding our confusion about it. (Bane’s speech on darkness, from one of the Batcam films, comes to mind)