DVD Ripping with DVD Shrink Takes FOREVER!

[Super(man)]

I recently reformatted my hard drive and now DVD Shrink takes 4 hours to back up a DVD when it used to take only 30-45 minutes tops. Before the reformat, the ripping was fine. I use a QSI CDRW/DVD Drive which is built-in to my laptop and an external NEC ND-3500a DVD Burner. I have tried ripping with both drives and they are both slow. My laptop is a Dell Insprion 5150, Pentium 4, 3.06GHz, 1GB RAM installed.

Any ideas?

[mattyboy]

Hell it takes me 25-15 min. and I find that unacceptable!

[freebird73717]

Check your device manager to see if your drive has reverted to pio. If it has then change it to dma.

[lenti_75]

there is something wrong with settings, probably hdd

[Super(man)]

My drives are already set at DMA. Any other idea's? DVD Shrink worked fine before I reformatted.

[MOVIEGEEK]

Did you install the chipset drivers on the CD that came with your PC?
http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/kb/en/document?dn=1084420&c...n&cs=#Install2

[jimmalenko]

Have you tried the DVD Ripping speed tips sticky in the DVD to DVDR forum ?

[Super(man)]

Ok, I reinstalled the chipset drivers on the Dell Drivers CD that came with my laptop, but still the encoding gets up to like 2,500KB/s then slowly goes down to like 500KB/s... It is very annoying, any other idea's?

[handyguy]

Lots of people said if you clear out the shrink files, the ones it makes from analyzing stuff, you get your speed back. I forgot where they are.

Also, make sure you didn't check that LOW PRIORITY box as it can make things real slow.

[Super(man)]

Ha! I think you might've solved the problem handyguy, it was in low priority mode so let's see if that fixed the problem.

[Super(man)]

And where are these shrink files located? I haven't found them yet. I have tried everything what the DVD Ripping Speed Tips Sticky has said also. I am going around in circles here.

[handyguy]

Ah, I found it:
Where does DVD Shrink save it's analysis data?

DVD Shrink analysis files can be found in the following hidden folder:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\DVD Shrink

To show hidden files/folders:
Windows Explorer >> Tools >> Folder Options >> View >> Hidden files and folders >> Show hidden files and folders.

Here is a faq page:
http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=45339

[Super(man)]

That never helped. I just tried unlocking my Burner with firmware, it makes the speed go higher but then it still comes down... Could it be the way I formatted my computer?

[Super(man)]

Any more idea's?

[handyguy]

Why not try dvddecrypter instead?