Laptop Stops Ripping, Then Starts

[hech54]

I hate laptops.


My wife's laptop, while ripping a DVD, just stops several times during the rip. The drive completely stops moving, then as if nothing happened it starts back up again eventually completing the rip/copy as if nothing ever happened.
Normally she is using AnyDVD as her weapon of choice. Whether it's a straight copy via the right-click method in AnyDVD or recently she started using AnyDVD with DVDShrink.....exact same scenario every time.....start, stop, start, stop, start and done.

WTF is that?
Did I mention I hate laptops?

[Bjs]

If this relates to dvdshrink with anydvd running in the background then I suspect that's where part of the problem is ... dvdshrink loads memory to a point it will stop until its memory usage comes back down to normal. This could affect the drives ability to send data so it parks if the time out threshold is reached for each product in chain.

Have you tried anydvd on its own then use dvdshrink on the title stored on hard drive ?

[hech54]

Have you tried anydvd on its own then use dvdshrink on the title stored on hard drive ?

My wife is a NEWBIE to DVDShrink.....like within the past few weeks.....so her normal routine is/was Rip with AnyDVD to the HDD, then to take what she needed from the rip with HandBrake(for her monster iPhone).

[Bjs]

Generally I tell people not to use laptop optical discs for anything other than product installs.

Is anydvd up to date ?

Check drive has not gone into pio mode under device manager and or bios ... change to dma mode.

Remove drive and firmly reinsert unit ... could be ailing data connector.

Use manufactures tools to test hard drive performance is inline with specs and not causing bottle neck in data transfer.

Confirm no other program is running concurrently ... down loaders, utorrent, ect ... no watching yutube or web browsing at same time.

Delete upper and lower filters in registry and reboot ... retest again ... these can get corrupted and cause all kinds of headaches

[hech54]

So far I see nothing as far as enabling DMA Mode on this drive..........


This is a Windows 8 laptop....and the dreaded TSST-Corp drive(SU - 208BB)
Grrrrr

[redwudz]

PIO mode/DMA was mostly a problem with PATA (IDE) drives. A laptop with W10 would likely have a SATA optical drive.
I would suspect a Windows problem, maybe power savings settings?

I use AnyDVD and Vidcoder and run the DVD conversions directly from the optical drive, but that's not on a laptop.
I haven't noticed the drive stopping during conversion.

[hech54]

PIO mode/DMA was mostly a problem with PATA (IDE) drives. A laptop with W10 would likely have a SATA optical drive.
I would suspect a Windows problem, maybe power savings settings?

I'll check Power Saving settings too. Right now I'm looking into McCaffee's(whatever it is) 24/7 file scanner nonsense that cannot be turned off or even temporarily disabled.....and I have to do all of this with my wife looking nervously over my shoulder.