DVDShrink problems

[steve2713]

sigh.......that was a waste of most of this thread

DVDShrink needs to use the processor to transcode, ya know. You should consider not running all that freaking stuff at once. Turn off all that junk and try again.

Let us know how long it takes without all this stuff running in the background, it is almost certainly the cause of your problems.

[DEMEN]

It took me less than 20 min to rip a DVD 9 by DVD decrypter then 1 1/2 hrs - 2 hrs to compress and burn DVD by DVD Shrink.... When I tried using Nero recode, it tooks exactly 46 min complete the process from compress to burn a complete DVD 9 to DVD 5 (my burner is 8x). However, sometime the nero recode couldn't compress down to DVD 5 as I wished by some reason, so I had to go back to DVD Shrink. My question is what's wrong in my system? Is it the software or hardware problem?

[zeretul1]

I understand it from a few sources that AMD Athlon processors are built to use 90-100% of the ability when perform cpu intensive tasks. That is why their gameplay is rated higher than P4's. Even when I shut down every program I could beside the dvd shrinker, it still was taking 2 hours and running my processor at 90-100%.

Any other ideas?

[shelbyGT]

How much are you shrinking it at?
I noticed that when I backed up my CSI collection (previously mentioned) it was taking about an hour to encode at around 60% compression using AEC set on "smooth".

Popped in a regular DVD9, did movie only backup and I was back to my normal times.

Anyone got a good reason why it was slowing down so much when I compressed it that much? Is that normal? Damn, should probably have started my own thread here

[Severity]

Two hours is way too long. Sounds like the days of converting DVD to Svcd. A friend of mine had the same problem and he fixed it be wiping his hard drive and reinstalling windows. He had so much crap build up on his hard drive from old programs and internet bugs. Now with using shrink and burnning with decrypter even with deep anal. it take at the most an hour. And thats with his slow AMDcpu.

[jimmalenko]

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HE said "ANAL" ... and DEEP ANAL, at that ...

[steve2713]

I'm still thinking that there is something on your system slowing things down - for instance, I've had 3 seperate instances of dvdshrink transcoding at the same time, and it takes several hours for them to finish since they are fighting over the CPU.

And when I run DVDshrink, it uses about 98% of my P4 2.8 HT CPU, so it's going to want to use as much of the CPU as you allow it to.

[jimmalenko]

Defragged the hard drive lately ?

[zeretul1]

Yeah, I have defragged lately.

At this point, I dont care how much time it takes to use the two programs together. I will just use better disks, and either dvd shrinker or 1 click dvd copier 4.1.

Ah, live and learn huh.

[JSB]

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HE said "ANAL" ... and DEEP ANAL, at that ...

Nice!