Files locked ?

[Terabyt1]

Hello,
I'm very new to this DVD to VCD ripping stuff. I was told to use:
SmartRipper 241
DVDx 1.6
VCDimage
Some of the movies copy fine, although it does take 6 hour per movie. I'm using a Pent 4 1.7 g with 512 mem. The CPU is at max the whole time.
The problem is while using SmatRipper, some of the DVD give me an error. ( Files locked ) Is there any way around this?
Also, is there a better, faster way of doing this getting the best quality I can?
Sorry to be a pest, we were all new at some point. :-?
Please e-mail a reply if you can.
Terabyt1@aol.com

[Sefy]

I'm presuming you either using Windows2000 or WindowsXP, both do not have an ASPI Layer included, which gives both ripping and authoring programs a problem when attempting to access the hardware, you must have an operational and updated ASPI Layer installed.

[kinneera]

Oddly, I've never had any problem with Smartripper or CDRDAO working in XP, and I've never done anything special beyond the default installation. I would venture to say that Windows XP does install an ASPI layer if it detects a CD-recorder in the system? Thus, I would be interested to hear others' experiences in this regard.

[Sefy]

kinneera, I don't know how it never happened to you, but just about EVERY user of XP I know of, asked me to send them ASPI Layer Installation, and they had a CDRW drive in their system.

XP installs a substitute for ASPI, but ALOT of old programs don't work with it, and among your defeault installations, you might have installed an ASPI with out even relieasing it.