I've been burning dvds using DVD Shrink and DVD Decrypter together. For the past year everything has been working fine, until now. Normally i was burning at a 4x rate, but all of the sudden the burn rate never passes .6x. I also always get an error for a cyclic redundancy check around 98/99% completion, and sometimes before like around 50%. I've tried using many different dvd titles so i don't think bad encoding or dirty dvds are the problem. I'm also using the same high quality blank DVD-Rs that i always have.
So does anyone know how to fix this problem? and if not do any of you know if the problem lies with my CPU or my dvd burner. Thanks.
Goto my computer, view system information, hardware, device manager,IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, double click on primary IDE channel and select advanced then do the same for secondary IDE channel.
Short for direct memory access, a technique for transferring data from main memory to a device without passing it through the CPU. Computers that have DMA channels can transfer data to and from devices much more quickly than computers without a DMA channel can. This is useful for making quick backups and for real-time applications.
EDIT:
Shrink can not handle the latest movie encryptions because it is no longer updated, and it never will be.
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Here is the free way of making perfect backups:
1) DVDFab Decrypter - this wil break the movies encryption while ripping the movie to your HDD
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AnyDVD works in the background to automatically remove the copy protection of a DVD movie. All you have to do is start up AnyDVD and continue using your normal compression engine, whether it's shrink, recode or CloneDVD, It's that easy.
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Wow, thanks for the help. I'll be using the new software for now on.
But when I tried to change the primary and secondary channel to DMA if available, the drives still operate in PIO mode. Does this just mean that i bought a low quality external DVD burner that can't operate in DMA mode? Thanks.
What is the make of your DVDWriter and are you running windows xp?
If you are running xp uninstall your DVDWriter that might help, dont worry because xp will automatically install it for you when the computer has booted up.
Also when you install DVDFab Decrypter for the first time it will ask do you want to enable DMA, select yes and it will do it for you.
I was looking at some other websites and found this page which says that I can enable DMA by hacking the registry. I'm hesitant to try it for fear of messing up my computer more than it already is. What do you all think of this idea? Here's the page http://sniptools.com/tipstricks/getting-back-to-dma-mode-in-windows-xp
I had the same problem this past week. pazzini is right. I uninstalled my ide controller that was set to pio mode and restarted my pc. when the pc came back up windows automatically reinstalled the ide controller and everything went back to dma mode. Now the problem is no more.
Quote:I don't know how to uninstall the DVD writer, which I think means the actual external drive.
You have an external drive and DMA does not apply to externals only internal drives. How about you check and make sure your firmware is up to date on the burner.
Thanks for the help. I uninstalled the IDE drivers and that fixed the problem. They now work in DMA mode and my external burner is again writing at top speed with no errors in my past 10 attempts.
However now my Windows Media Player is not working. My computer freezes up whenever i open the program. Also when i tried to reinstall the media player the IDE settings automatically go back to PIO mode and i have to reinstall these devices again. Does anyone know why windows media player is acting this way?
