Slow ripping an burning

[newman1]

I've shown a friend of mine how to backup there kids dvd's because the kids destroy them. They're using dvd decrypter and dvd shrink and decrypter again to burn them. It is a brand new Compaq pc with an 8x burner. I can't get it to rip or burn faster than 0.8x. When it is burning you can see the device buffer continually dropping down to empty. The drive is in dma mode. Any ideas that may help. I've been doing my backups for about a year now and have never sen this problem. Thanks for any input you may have

[mikiem]

Try different media?
If constant broadband access, disable & turn off virus, anti-spyware, possibly firewall software?
Check for other programs and processes running?
Try diagnostic &/or benchmark prog. on DVD drive - bad drive?

[hech54]

Do the old cntrl-alt-del trick to see a graph of your CPU usage. It it is high and you are not doing anything major on the computer(that includes anything concerning DVD's)...then you have problems.

[ROF]

Teach the kids to respect their toys by allowing them to destroy them and not giving them another for quite sometime. Following that simple rule will also save your friend a considerable sum of money considering quite a few kids movies can peak near 6-7GB in size thus requiring DL backup discs unless your friend doesn't care about the kids eyesight.

Check the processes that are running on the machine and how much CPU cycles they are using.

Does the burner have a rip lock? If so attempting to rip continously at such low speeds can cause the burner to malfunction or die prematurely.

[Bjs]

The burner , if it is new , is most likely set to ripping at 2x max , which is what some companies implemented to slow down piracy .

Go buy a liteon dvd player unit , install it , and rip upto 8x .

It is also handy for all the cd/dvd playback , namely kid's pc game disc's , and if it cough's up and die's , there cheap to replace .

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As for the slow burning ... if all the other mentioned fix's have not worked .

If possible , take the burner to another pc , preferably not a p4 system .

There have been unit's released that perform like utter crap on p4 system's ... I had to fix one .

Swapped it into another p4 system that dosent use the extra 4 wire power clip , and it worked .

Swapped it in to my athlon pc , no problem .

Install my sony and lg unit's into p4 with problem , no problem's .

This unit did not like the system using the extra 4 wire power connector .

It was returned and replaced with an lg unit ... it now burn's without fault .

We now test all hardware before client's walk out the door ... after all , we want them to not only enjoy their purchase's , but to come back ... preferably as often as possible ...