When I use DVD Shrink, DVD Fab to rip or shrink a movie recently, it gets slower and slower and sometimes, it stops half way with an error message. The computer also gets busy and slow with some type of interruption like it disable me from using DVD Shrink/Fab while online. But, the main problem is using DVD Shrink/Fab itself. It is so slow that it seems like I am using DVD Shrink/DVD fab on a old Win 98 computer. Mines is an XP computer.
I have been having this problem ever since I rip off the Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony movie and Fantasic 4 (II).
For DVD Shrink, it use to take 20 minutes to shrink a movie off a DVD. While ripping, I can see the picture going smoothly like fast forward a DVD 2x. Right now, I notice DVD Shrink is increasing hard disc (computer) space under DVD Shrink buffer (3rd item on the DVD shrink while shrinking movie) and it stops when it reaches a 500MB. Before, it uses very less between 1MB-30MB or way less and continues on with the entire onto the hard drive.
For DVD Fab, it takes 1 hour to rip a movie compare to the old 30 minutes. Slow slow slow.
I have a lot atleast 40GB of space on my computer. Not sure is there something I can do on the computer to resume back the original fast DVD shrink and DVD Fab.
Can someone please help?? Any suggestions will help.
Check that the burner is set for DMA and has not slipped into the slow 'PIO' mode.
My Computer > properties > hardware > device manager > click the "+" beside ide controllers, look at the properties > advanced settings of the Primary and Secondary channels.
Typically the burner is on the Secondary channel.
If it says 'PIO' for the current transfer mode, then the channel has to be uninstalled and the PC rebooted.
Thank you very much for your help. It is working right now. It was set to PIO mode. I got one more question. If I reset the Primary Channel, it will resume back to normal, am I correct? The Primary Channel is not set to PIO mode, but the second slot set Not avaliable or something similar. The Secondart Channel is back to normal after the uninstall and restart.
If you uninstall either of the IDE channels, the drivers will be reinstalled on reboot to the optimum settings.
The hard drive or drives are normally on the Primary;optical drives on the Secondary.
If there is only one device on a channel (like one hard drive) the empty connector will have no setting until you connect it to a piece of hardware - and when you reboot, it's drivers will be installed.
