Are there any speed tweaks for DVD readers?

[Viper187]

I find it rather odd that you can pretty much write DVDs faster than you can read them. I was wondering if there's anything that can speed up reading? I read something a while back about a read cache setting in Windows for cd-rom drives, but I think the info was about Win98.

Edited November 12, 2005 by Viper187

[suryad]

Can you explain your claim?

[pugwash2004]

The reason you can write dvd's faster than reading because dvd drives are set to do this by default to stop mass ripping. On some drives you can rip a dvd video disc at only 1x - 2x speed even if the drive is rated at 16x but a data disc will read at no limit. Changing the drive cache setting will likely do nothing.

A firmware hack that removes the ripping speed limit, check www.rpc1.com, is more likely to work. I bought a dvd-rom drive specifically for ripping and downloaded a modified firmware from that site which was region free and had no ripping limit. Before the hack it could take 40 - 50mins to read a dvd but after the firmware update 10-15mins. I can backup a full 9Gb dvd in about 25minutes now using 16x media.