DVD Decryptor ripping very slowly.....

[lordhutt]

I have the newest version of DVD Decryptor.
It used to rip a DVD at about 7-8X and take about 12 minutes.
Now it won't read any faster than about 1.2X
I tried it in 2 DVD players and reinstalled the program.

As far as I know my pc is virus free.

Any ideas what can be causing this?

Thanks
Andy

[Blazey]

Try a different disc. Occasionally I will get one that rips slow. You say virus free, but have you checked for spyware? Run Ad Aware and you'll probably be shocked with what it comes up with.

Lastly, go back to the original version of Decrypter and see if it is better. It may not be the software.

[tim6661234]

2 Questions
What kind of media are you trying to rip, Commercial or DVD +/-R?
The later always rip slower for me.

Have you updated your firmware on your DVD drive?

[Blazey]

2 Questions
What kind of media are you trying to rip, Commercial or DVD +/-R?
The later always rip slower for me.

Have you updated your firmware on your DVD drive?

No offense intended but...

DO NOT FLASH YOUR DRIVE unless you really have to!!!!! Figure out the problem first!!!

Meanwhile...

[tim6661234]

Sorry should have bee more specific. I wasn't suggesting he flashed his drive, just asking if he had in case this was the issue.

[lordhutt]

As far as spy/ad ware I believe I am fine on that as well...I don't any peer to peer crap of anything like that so I never really have problems like this.
I did a Trendmicro housecall checkup a few days ago to be sure.

These are commercial DVD's and I have tried a few different ones....actually now that I think of it I also tried a DVDR with the same results.

Have not messed with the firmware. Been using the same 2 drives for over a year now and this just started.

I can try the older software like Blazey suggested....but I think it started with an older one and then I updated hoping it would solve the problem but it didnt.

-Andy

[tim6661234]

Have you checked that your drive has DMA enabled in Device Manager?

[Bodyslide]

Check to see if the drive changed from DMA to PIO.

More Info here.

http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=101616

[lordhutt]

DMA is enabled.
Another thing I forgot to mention. DVD Decryptor is never even noticeable when running.....I mean I can do 10 other things no problem with no pc speed loss.

Now with it running it seems to slow my pc up quite a bit.
Just changing between browser windows is taking a good 3 seconds or so when it should be instantaneous.

.....???

[tim6661234]

Strange because that points to a drive in PIO mode (the processor has to do more work). Just to be sure check all your drives. Other than that I can't think of anything apart from a virus check. Sorry!

[Bodyslide]

Have you tried to change the amount of memory that DVD Decryptor Uses? I have mine setup for 64 megs. I can rip a DVD in about 10 minutes.

[Halm]

Everything you have said points to a drive in PIO mode. Are you using Windows XP? If so, XP can slip into PIO mode and still report the drives as being in DMA mode. I had this happen. The only way to to remove the IDE Controller for the drive. Then reboot...the system will reinstall it with the dma enabled.

[freebird73717]

spyware is diffrent than a virus. You can pickup spyware just surfin a website. These things add up and can use system resources. Download ad aware or spybot and you might be supprised to find the amount of programs hiding on your hard drive!
Do a google search to find the 2 programs.

[glockjs]

yeah tell me about spyware. re-did my system the other day and by a few hours of surfing i had over 700 critical recognized in ad aware

always important to run virus protect, ad aware, spybot, regclean

you might wanna defrag your hdd too. might help.

i would force dma through your bios too.

[anzimike]

as above win xp can be stubborn about enabling dma mode. No offense but the uninstall/reboot trick did not work for me when I installed a new drive. Have to go to bios at startup and make sure drive dma is set to "auto". Trying to rip a bad disc can "tell" win xp to revert to pio mode repeatedly, so as above make sure drive is in dma and try another disc and see if it works. good luck.

[lordhutt]

THANKS!!!!!
I removed the IDE controllers and rebooted.
Got all my speed back in both dvd ripping and being able to run other programs while doing so.

This forum rocks !!!! anytime I have a problem it is usually answered the same day!!!

Thanks again.

-Andy

[aero]

Everything you have said points to a drive in PIO mode. Are you using Windows XP? If so, XP can slip into PIO mode and still report the drives as being in DMA mode. I had this happen. The only way to to remove the IDE Controller for the drive. Then reboot...the system will reinstall it with the dma enabled.

very good advice. I had exact same problem a few months back. showed dma and was indeed pio.

[lordhutt]

How the hell does it change on it own though?....and then still show DMA in the device manager?!!

Anyway, problem solved!

[Gurm]

XP auto-steps down the transfer mode based on how much error data it gets from the device/controller.

Trying to repeatedly rip a bad disc can do this, as can a number of other things.

- Gurm