BD Ripper (3D Plus) Does this speed seem right?

[Sub]

I never see the gauge go over 10%, so I figure I'd ask because I saw one guy showed a pic of his machine much higher. I have a GTX1080 TI and a i7 7740X, 32gb ram and NVMe drive. I use h264 1920 2 pass @.5 bits/pixel and copy audio. 8 cores are selected, and I use Cuda for all and enable both lightnings settings.

Is it normal to only see like 7-8% on the gauge? I see about 140fps during BD encoding. In task manager, my aggregated CPU usage is only like 30% and my GPU is about the same - seems like that should be pinned?! My drive is a WH16NS40 (https://www.lg.com/us/burners-drives...-ray-dvd-drive).

[signals]

It depends on your settings and configuration. You will get much better speed if you:

• Convert from a source on a HDD or ssd
• read and write to different drives
• when possible read/write different controllers, e.g. sata to usb 3.x

The bottleneck is usually the optical drive. My laptop when set up per the above converts Blu-ray to mp4 at 5-600 fps.

I also suggest trying turning the b/p down to about half what you are using and see if you can really see a difference. You have good hardware that is capable of fine speeds.

[Faith]

(I use Cuda for all and enable both lightnings settings.)

Turn off lightning recording it's a older slower software setting.Lightning shrink will work with cuda when doing some jobs.

[signals]

To clarify:
Lightning Recoding was added back when many had no CUDA capability and is designed to speed up compression in blu-ray Copy only using the Software settings. It still works fine but not for anything except h264 content (no mpeg-2 or vc-1 discs). Probably not needed with a modern GPU.

Lightning Shrink works in Copy and Ripper with CUDA to increase speed. It too was designed in the early days of GPUs and may not show a significant speed increase with today’’s high end CUDA cards but you should try it on your system to see the result.

[Sub]

thanks guys. ya I guess I'm limited to optical speeds.