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November 17th, 2010, 13:59 GMT · By

NVIDIA CUDA Enables Super-Fast Blu-ray Ripping with DVDFab, Download Trial Here

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NVIDIA CUDA speeding up Blu-ray ripping applications
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Although creating backup copies of Blu-ray discs (a process also known as ripping) is not exactly a legal activity, as long as you employ the resulting copy in a commercial purpose or upload them to illegal sharing websites, things are quite different when you employ said materials just in order to enhance your own entertainment experience.

However, in the absence of the right software and hardware, creating such a copy can take a very long time, but the people over at Fengtao Software promise that the latest version of their DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper application will manage to take care of this problem, especially when running on a system equipped with a latest-gen NVIDIA GPU featuring CUDA technology.

The DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper is a flexible and all-featured Blu-ray ripper which can rip and convert Blu-ray to various video and audio files playable on next generation consoles like PS3 and Xbox 360, HD player like WD TV Live, or mobile devices like iPod, iPhone, iPad.

The solution can decrypt and rip any Blu-ray, removes all known AACS copy protections, BD+ copy protections, region code, BD-Live, UOPs, MKB V18 and newest MKB V19 to rip any Blu-ray.

Moreover, multiple output files and devices are supported, since the DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper can convert Blu-ray to video formats like MKV, MP4, AVI, WMV, M2TS, etc. and to audio formats such as MP3, MP4, M4A, WMA, WAV, AC3 and DTS for playback on various devices like PS3, Xbox 360, iPod, iPad, iPhone, and so on.

What's more important to point out, however, is that the application leverages the NVIDIA CUDA technology found in many of the latest-gen NVIDIA GPUs in order to ensure super fast converting speed (of course, using a multi-core CPU will also further boost up).

Last, but certainly not least, we'll have to say that, if you want to check out for yourselves the way in which CUDA enhances the Blu-ray ripping speed of the aforementioned software, you can download the trial from Softpedia and give it a go.

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Comment #1 by: Tlk on 17 Nov 2010, 16:26 UTC reply to this comment

Nto legal in USA, not worldwide.


Comment #2 by: Tip DS on 07 Sep 2011, 19:55 UTC reply to this comment

I have found the CUDA utilization very lacking. When ripping/converting, my GPU never exceeds 10%, but the CPU cores are maxed out. Alternatively, other applications I have used offer as much as 50% GPU use, and are MUCH faster. i.e. DVDFab conversion rate: 20-30fps. Same video, same settings with Badaboom - conversion rate: 180fps. Needless to say, I only use DVDFab for copying the content (unchanged) to my hard drive, then convert with other tools.

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