dvdshrink help, problems?!

[only_emo_kid]

Alright, i've searched and i remember a topic awhile back about this. But I don't remember a solution...

I've used shrink to do about 80 backups.. okay now, it says for encoding 3hrs... its the devils advocate... wth? this is the longest its ever taken!?!?!

[jimmalenko]

ummm yeah ...........

... is there a question to follow ...

... or are we just getting a running commentary ?

[only_emo_kid]

I was asking why is it taking so long?

[jimmalenko]

I was asking why is it taking so long?

sorry.

My crystal ball's on the blink today

[only_emo_kid]

alright, no prob. Thx

[Paul Simmel]

Alright, i've searched and i remember a topic awhile back about this. But I don't remember a solution...

I've used shrink to do about 80 backups.. okay now, it says for encoding 3hrs... its the devils advocate... wth? this is the longest its ever taken!?!?!

DVDShrink had always been “foolproof” for me, until last night it wanted 54 + hours analyze Harry Potter’s Chamber of Secrets. Other test DVDs ran fine and as usual.

I downloaded DVD Decrypt, ripped to the HDD, and used Nero Recode 2 for very good copy.

I don’t know if the problem is with the original DVD itself (the disk), or if it is the mass production of this particular Harry Potter movie.

Try a few test disks and see if DVDShrink does its normal thing…

[stewart2000]

i had a similar prob, though not as long as yours... i just re booted my system and it solved the prob

[zworg2]

I've used shrink to do about 80 backups.. okay now, it says for encoding 3hrs... its the devils advocate... wth? this is the longest its ever taken!?!?!

I have been using Shrink for some time now and have processed many many many DVD's and hence created many many backups.

Once in a while it decides to take longer than normal. But for me normal is a maximum of 15 - 20 minutes, and longer than normal is NEVER more than 60 minutes.

However it does act strange sometimes. For a small portion of a disc it will suddenly slow right down. It doesnt prodcue any errors and speeds up back to normal shortly afterwards. Maybe whatever is causing mine to do it for a small bit is causing yours to do it for the whole disc???

A thought or two. Have you tried the most recent version? (no i dont know wot number)

Did you have ANYTHING running at the same time. Sometimes my virus software yells at me when i am Shrinking, and this delays it a little.

Zworg2

[stewart2000]

struth, thats a quick copy time...taks me abot 90 mins all up for encoding and burning, though i always run deep analysis and burn at 4X.
(that time is for my multi episode STTNG, and Babylon 5 disks.

[shelbyGT]

I've noticed that if you are shrinking it a large amount (65% or so) that it takes a bit longer to encode, especially if you are using one of the AEC enhancements.

[zworg2]

struth, thats a quick copy time...taks me abot 90 mins all up for encoding and burning, though i always run deep analysis and burn at 4X.
(that time is for my multi episode STTNG, and Babylon 5 disks.

All told, the full process from inserting original in drive to being able to take original and backup out of drives takes average of 45 minutes.

I never run deep analysis (i dont think )
I only burn at 4x

The more there is on the original (that i want to keep) and therefore the higher the compression percentage the longer it takes. I also imagine that this is affected by the type of movie it is. High Octane fast moving action movie = longer, slow soppy girlie film, or cartoon etc = shorter.

But the longest i have ever taken for the full process is 60+ minutes. (Smegging Buffy and all the extras on the discs)

No sorry, memory kicked in (rare i know ) the longest i have ever taken to backup is 68+ hours
This was Battle Royale. Friend and I both have copies and both couldnt rip the subs.......three seperate rips ---> merge and then burn....
argh!

But back to the original topic, never had any problem with Decrypter.

[shelbyGT]

You don't do deep analysis? ever? It is turned on by default, you know, if you compress it any more than a few percents.

And like I previously mentioned, if you are compressing it a lot, and have deep analysis and/or AEC turned on, it will take much longer than a straight dvd5 to dvd5 copy.

[zworg2]

You don't do deep analysis? ever? It is turned on by default, you know, if you compress it any more than a few percents.

Okay guess i do do deep analysis

[stillmars321]

Try a hard drive defrag. It's recommended on the DVD Shrink forum as a fix for long encode times

[DEMEN]

Alright, i've searched and i remember a topic awhile back about this. But I don't remember a solution...

I've used shrink to do about 80 backups.. okay now, it says for encoding 3hrs... its the devils advocate... wth? this is the longest its ever taken!?!?!

DVDShrink had always been “foolproof” for me, until last night it wanted 54 + hours analyze Harry Potter’s Chamber of Secrets. Other test DVDs ran fine and as usual.

I downloaded DVD Decrypt, ripped to the HDD, and used Nero Recode 2 for very good copy.

I don’t know if the problem is with the original DVD itself (the disk), or if it is the mass production of this particular Harry Potter movie.

Try a few test disks and see if DVDShrink does its normal thing…

Hmm, I did have the same problem w/DVD Shrink... After ripped by DVD Decrypter, DVD Shrink took 30 mins to finish deep analized, and > 1 1/2 hrs to recode and burn... However, if I used Nero Recode, it always took me 45 - 45 mins from recode to burn.... Again, I haven't had that problem in DVD Shrink before til now... I came back w/Nero recode...

[DEMEN]

Oops... 46 mins

[Yorel]

i had a similar prob, though not as long as yours... i just re booted my system and it solved the prob

I've had a couple say 40 to 60 hours, and a reboot solved mine as well. Must be a memory problem......................Wish I could reboot my brain to solve my memory problem!

[rkr1958]

I don't mean to be picky here ... well I guess I do ... I've noticed several of you when talking about DVDShrink use encode or reencode ... technically speaking DVDShrink uses a transcoder. It's not an encoder. Why am I being so picky? See ... https://www.videohelp.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=245898&highlight=s

By the way, after ripping to the harddrive, DVDShrink even using Deep Analysis usually takes 30 to 45-minutes and has never taken longer than 60-minutes, for me that is.

[zworg2]

I was asking why is it taking so long?

Have you got much stuff running in background?

Some programs load into memory etc on startup and most of these you dont need there.

As already suggested a HD defrag could help. I get round this problem, by having one HD for ripping etc and one for everything else..

Not having anything else running at same time will help.

Oh and some discs are just B**tards to back up.

[stewart2000]

well, with a movie im backing up, i lust take the main movie, dont bother about the exteras, (we all know its special effects dont we, i dont want to know the way they do them, )

but multi episode disks i have found they compress down to around 60 - 64% just taking the episodes might save a few % but i figure might as well keep them rather than have the bother of reauthoring and making a new menu.

[videsiboy]

I too faced same kind of problem yesterday.

Generally it takes around 45 minutes to 1.5 hours to encode. I did a lot of encoding.

But yesterday it was saying more than 3 hours for a movie. Amazingly even after 3 hours, it is still showing remaining time as 3 hours. I tried encoding other movie, it took normal time.

This is first time I faced this kind of situation, after encoding 100s of DVDs.

Still DVD Decrypter + DVD Shrink + NERO are my favorites.