If you are using AC3, this may help. I've been doing my stuff in AC3 and some of my rips were very quiet. Going into the ac3 settings and disable 'normalize' in the mixer tab. This made the quiet ones the same volume as my normal sounding ones.

So I just started learning how to rip/encode my dvd's recently. I found fairuse and it's been pretty easy with good results. However, i have a few questions.

1. It seems as if this program is completly unsupported (outside of this forum) anymore, with no new versions or even a manual coming anytime soon. Is there another software which gives as good (or better) results and is also as easy to use/learn?

2. I am currently archiving some of my adult swim cartoons to my hdd and have noticed some strange results with encoding times. I did both seasons of the boondocks which are 20-22 minute episodes each, i was able to do 2 discs overnight. So I tried another dvd in which each episode is only 11 minutes, and it took 10+ hours to encode. The boondocks were 5 episodes each disc and 2 discs were under 8 hours, the other (tom goes to the mayor if your wondering) was 10, 11 minute episodes that took 10+ hours. Is it normal for different discs to take such an extreme difference in the encode time?

3. There is an option during encoding "use idle <somthing>". I'm wondering what that does, it almost seems as if it is saying to use only idle cpu. If i am not using my pc for anything during encoding, should i leave this checked or not?

Thanks
-Rich