Video to Video not writing to external drive

[karenlorr]

Hi

I am using files created by DVD Shrink.
I want to send them (from DVD shrink) directly to an external hard drive (3 TB seagate) but get the error message saying
"parameter incorrect error"

There is nothing wrong with the hard drive as I can write word docs to it, plus I can copy the films once created from a local drive.

I read somewhere that this may be caused by windows not being to handle large files to a 3TB drive so i tried re-partitioning down to 3 of 1 TB each.
The same problem??

It's not a big deal but it is slightly slowing things down having to write to a local drive then copy to the external drive.

Is there a way to get Video to Video to write directly to an external drive

Thank you

[hech54]

If you are trying to join the VOB files from ONE DVD into one, large MPEG2 file, just use VOB2MPEG.

[karenlorr]

Hi

Sorry I made a mistake in my question.

I have 250 DVDs and so first I am just going to use AnyDVripper to place them onto my external drive and I will then do "stuff" with the later.

The problem is that I can't get AnyDVripper to send them directly to my extenral drive. I have to save them 1st onto my laptop and then copy the files over.

Just wonder why this would be

[hech54]

Two pages of discussion here:
https://forum.videohelp.com/threads/355623-Copy-250-DVDs-to-hard-drive
...and now this:

I am using files created by DVD Shrink.

I have 250 DVDs and so first I am just going to use AnyDVripper to place them onto my external drive and I will then do "stuff" with the later.

1) You need to stop.
2) Get your story straight.

[karenlorr]

Sorry if I have offended you.

I followed the advice I got to my other question.

I then started to do the actions on my 250 DVD collection. I came accross a slight problem which was that I wanted to get AnyDVDripper to write directly to my external drive. It will not work. So I was asking another question.

But as I said I'm sorry if I have broken the forum rules somehow. I won't post any more questions.

Thank you

[hech54]

250 DVDs x 7 (average number of gigabytes on commercial DVDs) gigabytes is almost 2 Terabytes. You want to make EXACT COPIES of your entire DVD collection and put them to a 3TB external HDD.....correct?

[karenlorr]

No.

I am just putting the main films on to a drive.

I had some good advice to my other question and have done some google searches and read many items in this forum to work out how to do it.

This question was just asking if anyone knows why the programme called AnyDVDripper will not write to an external hard drive. It will write to my laptop and then I can move the file onto the external drive.

I was just trying to cut out one of the things I needed to do.

[hech54]

No.

I am just putting the main films on to a drive.

OK....Main Movie Only....
in a VIDEO_TS folder with VOB(etc etc) files?

[karenlorr]

Yes.

But I keep getting an error when I select the external drive as the output folder

[hech54]

Yes.

But I keep getting an error when I select the external drive as the output folder

Are you creating a new folder for each movie/DVD you copy before you start to copy?

[karenlorr]

No you don't need to.
AnyDVDripper creates the folder (named the same as the DVD) when you rip the DVD

But I did try and create a new folder (after your question) and it still gives the same error

[hech54]

If you can write small files to that drive, maybe your laptop USB ports are not "powerful" enough(for lack of the correct word) to run that big of a drive.
OR....make sure the drive is formatted to NTFS?

[karenlorr]

I can drag and drop films to the external drive (I have draged up to 20gb this morning) and it works fine, so I assume the drive and USB is OK.

The problem is when I try to select the external drive as the output folder for AnyDVDripper

Maybe this is just one of things I have to put up with

[Cornucopia]

Some applications (e.g. ProTools) that expect to have VAST amounts of space available as a cache (for recording, transferring, etc) actually do poll the drive and not give you options for certain drive types (removeable vs. fixed) and for certain filesystems (preferring NTFS over FAT, for example). I would have doubted it, but this could be one of those apps.

Scott

[karenlorr]

Oh well, it's not a big problem. I'll just have to live with it

[turk690]

But I keep getting an error when I select the external drive as the output folder

After they are installed, some programs' permissions get skewed (by Windows itself, other programs installed after, malware, etc.) such that they do not, or can no longer access certain drives. What I'd do: close all programs and reboot. Right-click on evil program icon (shrink, no?), run as administrator. See now if it will save to the wretched external drive.

[Bjs]

Questions ?

1: Drive format type
2: Anydvd version
3: Are all dvd titles producing the error
4: User account ... are you administrator

Anydvd did have an issue with permissions which was fixed in V7 release

If Drive is Fat32 its limited to max file size of 4gb ... some titles in movie only rip mode will exceed the value

[Cornucopia]

Yep, all pertinent questions.

Scott

[karenlorr]

are you administrator

Thanks for the tip.

If I run AnyDVDripper as administrator I can write to my external drive directly from AnyDVDripper.
I also tried this with DVDshrink and this works as well.

[Cornucopia]

There's your problem, then: It wasn't written correctly with UAC in mind, so non-administrators get screwed. LOTS of software are having these problems. It has been a hurdle since NT began, but got much worse with the arrival of Vista. You see all kinds of strange behaviors as a result of this that will send inexperienced IT troubleshooters off on wild goose chases, never realizing until much later that it was due to UAC complications.

Until the software gets re-written to correctly manage this, your only real workaround is to operate using an Administrator account.

Scott