Probelm with DVD shrink 3 beta 5

[foaley77]

When I backup movie it won't let me choose the deep analysis option before I did'nt have a probelm Can anyone help me out?

AMD Athlon 2000
DDR 520
Win XP Pro

[overloaded_ide]

Kinda silly, but the first thing that pops into my mind,

Is the disk a DVD5 that is smaller than a DVD R?
It would not need compressed and no need for deep analisys

Unless you wanted to maually set compresion like to fit 2 DVDs onto one disk. Then if you chose ratio perhaps the deep would come back?

Probably not the problem, but sometimes we over look little things
Like my getting a few errors with a couple programs, then seeing I had filed my drive and no space left

[Bud]

overloaded_ide


You nailed it.....DVDShrink won't try to shrink if the size is already below the 4.7 G.

Bud

[foaley77]

I was trying to copy Buffy season 4 discs which are around 7 GB's each

[tompika]

1. Close DVD Shrink

2. Control panel --- Folder options --- View --- Show hidden files and folders --- Apply,OK

3. Documents and settings --- Owner --- Application data --- delete "DVD Shrink 3.0" folder that contains the analysis results (or cut-paste to another directory if you want to keep it)

4. Launch the program


You'll probably have the deep analysis back

[foaley77]

Cheers

It works now

[ddlooping]

Hi all.

foaley77, if the "Analysis" button was greyed-out, it simply meant you had already analysed the DVD and had no need to do it again.
By deleting the whole folder you deleted all the analysis files, and will have to re-analyse any DVD you will want to backup again at a later date.

[tompika]

That was my first thought but foaley77 should have known which movies he had analysed.

So I thought there was a bug and DVD shrink identified two discs like they were the same? (Season discs)

Possible?

[ddlooping]

Yes tompika, I had not thought about that.
It could have been a case of DVD Shrink not identifying the DVD correctly.

[movienut2002]

ddlooping

If I select to use manual settings on the compression (sorry can't remember the exact terminology) and then select backup -- the deep analysis option is also greyed out when I try to do backups with 3.b5.

If I leave it on default settings when the movie is first opened, its fine. But sometimes I like to have less quality on the extra material and more q on the movie. Am I missing another option somewhere?

[ddlooping]

movienut2002, just to make sure I understand:

If you open a disc (or files) and you leave the "Automatic" default settings, the "Analysis" option is available.

If you open the same disc in the same manner and choose to modify the compression settings by using "Ratio", the "Analysis" is then greyed-out.

Is that correct?

[movienut2002]

That is correct ddlooping.

And if i go ahead and backup the files without the original settings and w/o the deep analysis, the file size is always 2-300 meg too big for the dvd.

The original settings and deep analysis produce very good size results - never had a problem with a backup being to large. Just would like to have the movie at higher quality at times and select extras at a manual lower quality. Of course you can always select still pictures for the extra material and still do the deep analysis, but this would be for someone wanting to keep the extras at a lower compression than default.

[foaley77]

foaley77, if the "Analysis" button was greyed-out, it simply meant you had already analysed the DVD and had no need to do it again.


No becauce I tried a new DVD and it still would'nt let me do the deep analysis option

[tompika]

Did you try that trick again? Removing DVDShrink Analysis results?

[foaley77]

no