instacopy crashing on me... gr... help please.

[dakkon]

I have instacopy version 1.0 I believe... and my buddy said it works fine for him, but for me it converts, then after some period of time it crashes.. I saw that instacopy 8.0 is out, but hell I don?t want to pay more money for another program that might crash on me and be of no use? any ideas, I don?t know when it is crashing as I don?t have time to watch it, I usually set it up before I go to bed, and before I go to work, its happened 4 times now, at first I though my hard drive might have been to full, but I cleaned my hard drives, and still crashing on me? I have a Sony vio laptop, with 700megs of ram and a 1ghz or so? with 2 20gig hard drives? I ripped the movie with dvd descriptor no problem, just cant convert it with instacopy.. Help please.


also the movie im trying to back up is gone in 60 seconds.

Thanks guys.

[northcat_8]

Whatever you do, don't "upgrade" to instant copy 8....it's a down grade in my opinion...it sucks.

Need some other system specs. Like:

Operating System
Instant Copy settings
Do you have the hidden settings editor?

You will find more help for Instant copy at www.mrbass.org
there's no message board but it's the place for info on IC7 or 8.

[busipaln]

What processor do you have. Sounds to me as if its an overheating problem. Video encoding uses a lot of CPU power. I'd monitor your CPU temp

[offline]

I second what northcat_8 said. IC8 is not a great program when it
comes to duplicating or burning near or at the limit for DVDR's - it crashes.

IC ver 1 sounds a little old to me.. have you tried the free and
excellent DVDShrink ? The quality of output is now on par (IMO) with IC7.

[pcexpress-guy]

in the instant hidden editor utility, you will find tools that allow you change PDI to ISO format and then you can use a free burner program to burn like dvddecrypter or a popular pay program like nero. (is there still a demo for nero?) Anyway, you could also change pdi images to regular files using the file extraction method in this utility as well.

The utility is free to acquire and the quality of what IC8 can do is amazing. It would be great if IC8 could do the other things better, but it seems many have problems with it. I too have had mixed experience when changing the dvd structure using IC8.

The value in IC8 is the quality of what it does in the picture, with very little input from the user I may add.

Good Luck!