Hey I was wondering if anyone could help me with this weird problem im having. Everytime I try to back up one of my DVDs it gets to about 30% my CPU goes to 100% usage and then it dies without any real warning. Do I need a driver update or what, I have no idea what to do, its just getting really annoying. Please Help...
p.s. I have a Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-820S for my burner
I have used several different ones because I thought it was the program, but it doesnt seem to be. I'v used Nero Recode 2, DVD Shrink, and CloneDVD, and all of them do the same exact thing they get to around 30 percent and my computer just dies. It just recentlly started doing this because last week it was working fine.
So the problem is in copying from a DVD to your hard drive (ripping)? Or is the problem occuring when you are burning a backup copy? The Matshita drive is somewhat problematic according to a google search, although I don't know if that's the problem here or not because we are still short on details. Have you tried to use DVD Decrypter to rip to the hard drive? Does that work? Are you using AnyDVD? That doesn't always work with that drive?
Have you tried burning with Nero in order to generate a log that can be posted so we can see what's going on, if the problem is in the burning phase? If you post a log file, be sure to delete your serial number and include only the last section? Are you using a different brand of media as compared to before?
I can get the files on to my computer with SOME programs such DVDFab Decrypter, but the problem is, is that it hasn't been shrunk yet, so if I pull the files up in DVD Shrink or Nero Recode 2, and it tries to shrink it down to 4.7 Gigs to fit on the DVD thats when it has the problem. I havnt even been able to burn it onto the blank DVD because it wont get past the first part.
As for using Nero it doesnt create an error log because it shuts down in the middle of it and its to late for it to even notice it seems.
This is now sounding like a possible copy protection scheme problem. There are some disks that when ripped cause problems in Shrink and Nero Recode because of the structural copy protection used on the disk. DVDFab usually gets around the problem though. Is this happening on all disks or just some? You might try AnyDVD with this caveat re Matshita drives (from Slysoft, creaters of AnyDVD & CloneDVD):
AnyDVD works with Matsushita (Panasonic) drives, as long as:
1.) The drive is set to a specific region code. If your drive isn't, set your preferred region.
2.) CSS protected discs match this region
AnyDVD does not allow you with Matsushita (Panasonic) drives to watch or copy a CSS protected disc, which has a different region then the drive, unless you have a patched firmware. (AnyDVD allows this with every other drive)
The reason is rather simple:
MMC standard requires, that a drive should not reveal a title key on a region mismatched CSS protected disc. (It should return "Illegal request - region code does not match"). Some drives are even less restrictive and even give you the title key on region mismatch.
But AnyDVD can usually reveal the title key with a brute force attack, as long as the drive allows you to read the scrambled sectors.
Matsushita (Panasonic) drives do not! You CANNOT read the scrambled data, if the region code doesn't match.
No other drive behaves this way, only Matsushita (Panasonic) drives do, as the standard does not require a drive to not reveal the protected data on region mismatch, but Matsushita (Panasonic) drives are more restrictive as they need to be.
There is nothing AnyDVD, DVDDecrypter, or any other software can do about this. Sorry.
Solution: Set the drive to a region, and only use matching discs. AnyDVD will remove CSS/Macrovision/Adverts/User prohibitions/forced subtitles/FBI warnings/... no problem.
It cannot bypass region codes with Matsushita (Panasonic) drives.
I hope this answers your question.
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James
SlySoft products
Other than this, I'm at a loss since you apparently never had problems until recently. Maybe someone else here can jump in and help.
