I had a problem with DVD Shrink a while back and discovered that if it were ever sluggish for a ripping, drasticaly slowing down from the usual 10-minute time for ripping a non-compressed DVD, I'd reclick the DMA box on my Windows 98 program hardware profiles and then restart, and DVD Shrink would rip fast as usual, maybe 4000-5000 p/s.
Similar problem now when I burn DVDs on my new XP laptop with Nero ; the lower buffer bar fluctuates up and down and it takes over an hour to burn a dvd at 2.4x, which typicaly takes 23 mins. But I find nothing to reset--anyone have this same problem? It DID happen after i had to compress a DVD on Shrink at 90%, but not sure if that's connected. I did restart, same trouble. Any ideas on how to reset something to get Nero back up to its normal burning rate? Thanks, fellas.
YES!! I know exactly what your talking about;;; this has been happening to me all the time recently with the dvd ripping/encoding ... some days the comp.'s really fast, and it can get (on average) about 15,000 kb/s--not lying:) But; on a slow day; I'll be lucky to get past 2,000 kb/s--I don't know the reason for this; but now that you've mentioned at least one solution to this; next time I rip a dvd; I'll try the reclicking of DMA and a restart.....'till then; I don't know how to solve this either; but hey, at least you're not the only one experiencing this....
Yes, that works for ripping with DVD Shrink on '98 only, NOT XP, but XP has no such box to check, and it's not the RIPPING i'm talking about, it's the BURNING with Nero that slows down, the lower buffer bar wildly fluctuates; this has never happened on my desk top computer, only on my laptop. help!
Okay, guys, I got it fixed. Follow the handy guide tabbed above, and once you go into your device manager, after changing the boxes to "enable DMA use" or something close to it, remove the driver and XP will automatically restore it upon restarting. Fixes any sluggish DVD Shrink or Nero 6 problems you might have.
