SmartRipper

[Bmfan1]

Hi, Im new at this whole ripping/editing/burning thing and have just purchased a brand new Pioneer DVR-A04 drive. However I am having problems with ripping Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon with SmartRipper. The problem is that whenever I start ripping it says that it is going to teke like 18 hours to rip, I left it on all night night and it still wasn't finished. Is this normal? And if not what am I doing wrong? I have a Dell 850mhz Pentium 3 computer with Windows ME. Any Ideas?

[BerrantRyke]

Sounds like an ASPI problem. Do a forum search for ASPI and you should be able to locate the links to DL the ASPIchecker program as well as forceASPI to install a new aspi layer.

Also check and be sure that you shiny new DVD drive is not running in PIO mode. But in DMA (I beleive thats right.. DMA....yea)

Hope this helps you a bit.

[pinoy2201]

wat brand is your DVD-Drive ??? is it a tosiba becuase all dells i thnk come with a Tosiba....if that is the CAse then your drive is the porblem Tsoiba drives were set to go only to 2x to prevent Ripping but if you dont have a ASPI or the DMA enabled that will really slow your speed down

[Bmfan1]

Okay I downloaded and installed the aspi thing. I then tried smartripper and it told me that soem of the dvd files were still locked and that I should try unlocking it with a player. So I tried to play the movie with PowerDVD and it said it wasan Unknown file format (keep in mind this was the first tme I had tried to play any movie since I got the drive). I do not know how to change the PIO thing to DMA if thats the problem. If not does anyone have any suggestions?

[poopyhead]

Bmfan1,

like wut pinoy2201 said.....find out the brand of the dvd-rom u have? is it toshiba? cuz if it is, then it sucks.....

basically, most dells were shipped w/ these sucky dvd-rom drives, so if u have a dell, then more than likely u're stuck

[unclebud]

I believe WinME is the same as Win98/95 as far as turning on DMA (Direct Memory Access) mode for your drive. Right click on My Computer and click on the Device Manager tab, double click on the cd-rom's in the layout of your computer hardware then double click on the DVD drive itself and you should be looking at the properties for the drive. Look for Enable DMA and add a check mark to the box for it. Close all windows and reboot your computer.
If you still have problems you could try a ripper that I've used called VCD Galaxy. It has 3 components, the ripper, DVD2avi, and TMPGenc. It's a time consuming process but it works pretty well.

[stanwebber]

enabling dma in windows will not speed up ripping speed on a decently fast pc. the disk i/o overhead + cpu cycles needed to rip will never max cpu utilization(unless you heavily multitask at the time). that being said it is still a good idea to enable dma because most other aspects of video creation will max out your cpu so the disk i/o cycles freed up by dma will be put to good use. fyi, if dma is not enabled in windows 95/98/98se/me by the manufacturer then clicking a dma box in device manager will do NOTHING. see this link, http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/archive/devdes/idedma.asp