Originally Posted by bendsley

4 hours? Jesus.

After I compress the movie, it's taking me 20 minutes or so to burn a full movie at 8x on a DVD-R. Maybe 12 minutes or so for a 16x DVD+R.

Using an Athlon 1800+ (1.53 Ghz, 1gig ram).

What I do is go to Hastings, rent 3 movies, go home and rip them completely with DVD Decrypter, use DVDShrink to pull just the movie out and remove extra sound streams and subtitles, and then burn using nero. Take the movies back by the next night at 10pm and receive $3 credit.