SmartRipper - stuck at the starting stage

[siridhar]

Help!!

I wanted to rip a DVD as per instructions at http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdtovcd.htm.

When I put the DVD in the DVD-ROM drive and click on SmartRipper.exe, a window opens up with the following as it's content:

"ASPI-Adatper available
try to unlock drive...."

At the bottom of the window is the following (like a status): "analyse IFOs"

The cursor is a waiting cursor and my system freezes. Nothing happens and I have to reboot the computer.

Can someone point out what's happening and how to fix this?

Thanks a ton!

~Sri~

[tomselina]

<TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font size=-1>Quote:</font><HR size=1 color=black></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT SIZE=-1><BLOCKQUOTE>
On 2001-12-12 21:17:46, siridhar wrote:
Help!!

I wanted to rip a DVD as per instructions at http://www.vcdhelp.com/dvdtovcd.htm.

When I put the DVD in the DVD-ROM drive and click on SmartRipper.exe, a window opens up with the following as it's content:

"ASPI-Adatper available
try to unlock drive...."

At the bottom of the window is the following (like a status): "analyse IFOs"

The cursor is a waiting cursor and my system freezes. Nothing happens and I have to reboot the computer.

Can someone point out what's happening and how to fix this?

Thanks a ton!

~Sri~

</BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></TD></TR><TR><TD><HR size=1 color=black></TD></TR></TABLE> Not sure about your system locking up, but try playing a short bit of your DVD before you start Smartripper. This will normally unlock your DVD and allow Smartripper to work properly.

[siridhar]

Thanks for the advice, I found out that if the DVD is kept in the drive after SmartRipper is started, it will work.

I did try playing the DVD before I started SmartRipper but my DVD player (DVDExpress) would cause the following error and wouldn't work: "Cdvdplay - This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down." When I pressed the details button, here is what follows:

"CDVDPLAY caused an invalid page fault in
module ALLNODE.DLL at 0167:6c010d33.
Registers:
EAX=04c80030 CS=0167 EIP=6c010d33 EFLGS=00010213
EBX=04d7fb1c SS=016f ESP=04c80020 EBP=04c80038
ECX=00b40009 DS=016f ESI=003c0003 FS=573f
EDX=bff76855 ES=016f EDI=6c020020 GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
83 7c 8f 04 00 74 45 56 55 8d 6b 10 ff 54 8f 04
Stack dump:
04c80038 04c80108 8187185c 04d7fb1c 04c80108 04c80124 04c8005c bff76849 04c80108 04d7fb1c 04c80124 04c800e0 04c80230 bff76855 04d7fb1c 04c800f0"

Do you know what's causing this? I tried uninstalling DVDExpress and installed it again but no use.

~Sri~

[AntnyMD]

DVDExpress is not the best piece of software ... and it gets very pissy when you install any other MPEG2 capable program (PowerDVD most notably). You can either uninstall it and use some other DVD player (theres a free one on almost all Warner Brothers DVDs, or buy a copy of WinDVD -- its well worth the price).

[pinoy2201]

I say that PowerDVD & WinDVD are the kost relaible DVD Playing Software out there so i suugest you invest in one of those Players