DVD Ripping

[pfeerick]

So back to the technical discussion. I'm not really worried about how long it takes when ripping. I imagine I will just put one disc in before I head to work and as long as the video file was created by the end of the day, that'd be sufficient. I was mostly just worried about whether the USB bus would be oversaturated and cause issues. I have seen it happen on older Raspberry Pis where using too much USB bandwidth caused the system to reboot unexpectedly, even with an externally powered hub. Hopefully the Pine can actually provide close to the full USB 2.0 spec bandwidth without having a bad day. I guess I will find out when I try the first one.

he he, yes, you can be our test subject But in all seriousness, I think it should be fine. I've had throughput of over 30MB/s when doing GbE throughput tests from USB2 connected storage, so it should cope. Plus you don't have the issue of the NIC/USB knocking each other off like you do on the rPis

You did bring up another good point though, and that's hardware encoding. Does the Pine have a hardware encoder that tools like avconv/ffmpeg can use to create quality rips without stressing the CPU as much? If so, has anyone already tinkered with this to find good settings to pass into the tools to make this work?

There was some mention back in August 2016 about the cedrus hw encoder working on the pine64 over on the Armbian forum, and an even earlier one in March 2016 by longsleep (although that is about decoding, not encoding), but I haven't played in that space myself, so I don't know if that does what you want...