I don't know what they did, but 8.1.2.0 took my conversion FPS from 105-117 and dropped them to like 79 which spirals down to about 38 and hangs around there for the duratiion about 5-10% in.
Oh, additionally, Pause no longer pauses--at all. The button chenges, but the encoding keeps going. i just had it jump from 32% to 45% while I left it paused. The percentage jump happened at resume, and I know it's legitimate because I'm watching it suck CPU while it's "paused" (or supposed to be).
Whatever was done to the engine...undo it. I haven't seen a release of DVDFab this bad, possibly ever.
Additionally, I concur that sometimes DVDFab just stalls for no apparent reason. If you cancel and just hit Finish and then Start again, without even exiting, it proceeds onwards as it should, ripping from the start of the stalled title and continuing on to however many you have queued.
Speaking of queuing...I absolutely -hate- the way the queue window pops open and needs to be closed EVERY time you add a single title from any subsequent discs, if you're processing multiple discs at once. (I like to rip to ISO on one system, then convert to AVI on another system, and let the latter do a whole season of a television programme overnight as I sleep.) This window should never pop open on its own. I reported this back in version 6 or 7, and it's never been fixed. Annoying as hell to set up a series of discs.
Did I mention the fact that CUDA MPEG2 decoding has -NEVER- worked at all on an EVGA-manufactured GTX-275 which has been proven (with BOINC and a few other things) to be able to do CUDA? The specs say the chip can do it, the chip -does- it, the chip even does it for H.264, but -not- for MPEG2 decoding, which is where I really could use it working correctly. It's never worked, and errors out after just a few seconds. Posted the details last year sometime, a few times I believe, and it's never been fixed. Same issues, no matter how recent a driver I have.
So, meanwhile, I'm stuck with DVDFab ripping at about 48FPS, currently, when it should be close to 3x that fast on this machine (and has been on past versions with the same settings), and I can't pause it to do anything else that requires heavy CPU load.
DVDFab still beats anything for copy protection removal, but boy, has the engine gone downhill in the last year, and especially in the last release (possibly since Qt...I don't recall trying to pause since Qt, come to think of it).
I'm really hoping quality improves to where it was before Blu-Ray became Fengtao's primary focus. I'll be doing DVD for years yet, unless DVDs go away (unlikely anytime soon). I'm seriously unhappy with the way the engine has serious flaws in basic DVD ripping functionality, yet they're focusing on Blu-Ray, and now the 3D thing? How about basic functionality fixes as a priority, folks?
EDIT: Intel E8400 @ 3GHz, 3GB, WinXP Home 32bit, WD 7200rpm Caviar drives (equivalent of Caviar Black line), EVGA GTX-275 Co-Op Edition with GTS-250 + extra VRAM. NVidia 270.61 drivers. It's not an i7, but it's always performed better than -this-, and my configuration hasn't changed.
Oh, additionally, Pause no longer pauses--at all. The button chenges, but the encoding keeps going. i just had it jump from 32% to 45% while I left it paused. The percentage jump happened at resume, and I know it's legitimate because I'm watching it suck CPU while it's "paused" (or supposed to be).
Whatever was done to the engine...undo it. I haven't seen a release of DVDFab this bad, possibly ever.
Additionally, I concur that sometimes DVDFab just stalls for no apparent reason. If you cancel and just hit Finish and then Start again, without even exiting, it proceeds onwards as it should, ripping from the start of the stalled title and continuing on to however many you have queued.
Speaking of queuing...I absolutely -hate- the way the queue window pops open and needs to be closed EVERY time you add a single title from any subsequent discs, if you're processing multiple discs at once. (I like to rip to ISO on one system, then convert to AVI on another system, and let the latter do a whole season of a television programme overnight as I sleep.) This window should never pop open on its own. I reported this back in version 6 or 7, and it's never been fixed. Annoying as hell to set up a series of discs.
Did I mention the fact that CUDA MPEG2 decoding has -NEVER- worked at all on an EVGA-manufactured GTX-275 which has been proven (with BOINC and a few other things) to be able to do CUDA? The specs say the chip can do it, the chip -does- it, the chip even does it for H.264, but -not- for MPEG2 decoding, which is where I really could use it working correctly. It's never worked, and errors out after just a few seconds. Posted the details last year sometime, a few times I believe, and it's never been fixed. Same issues, no matter how recent a driver I have.
So, meanwhile, I'm stuck with DVDFab ripping at about 48FPS, currently, when it should be close to 3x that fast on this machine (and has been on past versions with the same settings), and I can't pause it to do anything else that requires heavy CPU load.
DVDFab still beats anything for copy protection removal, but boy, has the engine gone downhill in the last year, and especially in the last release (possibly since Qt...I don't recall trying to pause since Qt, come to think of it).
I'm really hoping quality improves to where it was before Blu-Ray became Fengtao's primary focus. I'll be doing DVD for years yet, unless DVDs go away (unlikely anytime soon). I'm seriously unhappy with the way the engine has serious flaws in basic DVD ripping functionality, yet they're focusing on Blu-Ray, and now the 3D thing? How about basic functionality fixes as a priority, folks?
EDIT: Intel E8400 @ 3GHz, 3GB, WinXP Home 32bit, WD 7200rpm Caviar drives (equivalent of Caviar Black line), EVGA GTX-275 Co-Op Edition with GTS-250 + extra VRAM. NVidia 270.61 drivers. It's not an i7, but it's always performed better than -this-, and my configuration hasn't changed.
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