SUDDEN problem with DVD Shrink...(VERY slow)

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medic1234

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21. September 2005 @ 14:46

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Hey Everyone,

Thanks to everyone on this board, I have learned to successfully backup my movies. I have been doing it for months now with NO problems whatsoever. I have really only used the DVD Decyrpter and DVD Shrink combination. It's been FLAWLESS! Well, today, I attempted to backup (2) movies and somethings wrong. Normally after running the movie through DVD Decyrpter I then run it through DVD Shrink. My experience using both programs has the whole process in DVD Decrypter taking a modest (10) minutes or so and the process in DVD Shrink taking about (15) minutes or so. Well, today, the process still was about (10) minutes in DVD Decrypter BUT when I put the movie through DVD Shrink it read that it was going to take (130) hours then it went down to (85) hours a short time later. It's been about (4) hours now since it started and it says that there is about (8) hours to go. I have tried (2) different movies today and have gotten the same result.
The first movie is: (Christmas Vacation) and the second (Disney's Princess Stories Vol# 2).

I even went so far as to delete and reinstall DVD Decrypter... Didn't resolve the problem.

Does anyone know how I can get DVD Shrink back to it's normal operating speeds? I haven't done ANYTHING different today that I have done in the past. I am flustered.

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks!

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Bruce999

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21. September 2005 @ 18:02

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The most common cause of this error:

Windows has (quitely) switched your DVD drive from the DMA mode (which is much faster) to "PIO mode" which is slow, slow SLOW!)

It does this if the device has six "read failures." In other words, you can put in one dirty disc, and try to play it, or try to rip it, and if the disc is damaged, or scratched, or dirty, or smudged, it can cause the dreaded "CRC error" (a cyclic redundancy check error).
Get six of these, and Windows thinks your DVD drive is not really able to handle the faster DMA mode, so it just boldly switches you out of this, and into PIO mode. There are articles at Microsoft's Knowledge Base detailing this behavior.

Solution: switch the drive back. Acytually, it is most often the controller that needs to be checked. (For example, the IDE controller that the drive is plugged into).

Do a search, this has been discussed hundreds of times (no exaggeration). The best way to fix it is to actually unistall the controller, and then to re-boot. Windows will "re-install it" automatically, and it will usually see that it is capable of handling DMA.

Do a search, if you need more detailed info on how to do this. Try search terms like: " DMA mode enabled PIO controller. "

-Bruce

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