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Help Making MakeMKV Faster with External DVD Drive (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DataSci-FI on 2025-04-21 22:12:08.

My friend gave me a bunch of old home videos recorded on Sony 1.4gb (30 minute) DVD-Rs and asked if I could help digitize them. He also gave me a Rioddas external drive which device manager tells me is a HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GT32N. I am using MakeMKV as many folks here recommend but I am finding that the speed is very slow (~1.7x speed) which is making this process quite a chore. The page for the Rioddas says it has 8x speed on DVD-R.

Does anyone know of a way that I can improve the speed on MakeMKV with this drive? I assume I am running into riplock or something and I've heard about alternative firmware you can install but haven't found any for this drive model.

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