Multi Drive For CDs?

[Lee]

Does anyone know if such a thing exists, specifically one that can be attached to a computer and allow ther user to encode multiple DVD titles using one machine?

We just got a new batch of DVD content in and even with 3 of us and 6 machines, its looking like these 100 DVDs are going to take the best part of a week to get encoded, if not longer

Id love to find a really quick way to just load up a bunch of DVD titles and have them rip and/or encode at the same time just using one machine, there has to be a way to do this, doesnt there?

Regards,

Lee

[abbraxa]

Interesting problem. At first I thought a DVD duplicator might help, but those are built to burn copies of a DVD/image file, not retrieve data.

One solution might be this:
1) Rip the DVDs to your hardrive
2) Once ripped, you can use Videocharge (videocharge.com) to set-up the conversion settings, save each setting as a job, and then batch the jobs.

You'd still have to rip each dvd individually though. Maybe ask somebody in the VOD business how they do it. Good luck!