BigO
riveroer PMed me. The DMA is on and the system specs seem to be adequate. I advised this being handled in open forum. Currently, I advised a free trialware test of another program to see if the problem is with the recording software or is system related. I agreed with your suggestion of reinstalling the software as one of the possibilities. That was one of the possibilities I mentioned that may need to be addressed. I also mentioned the need for good cleanup and maintenace, i.e. Disk Cleanup, spyware/adware and AV, and registry tool operations. I even mentioned checking the drive interface, ASPI. And that was all in one little message.

Here are those specs I asked for and the DMA results.

By riveroer:
The specs are as follows:

Intel Pentium 4 - CPU 2.50 GHz
480 MB of RAM
hardrive is 120GB

I have defragmented the hardrive just in case.

I checked IDE ATA/....

Primary IDE Channel is set as follows:
Device 0 - transfer mode is set to DMA if available, current transfer mode is set to Ultra DMA Mode 5

Device 1 - transfer mode is set to DMA if available, current transfer mode is set to DMA if available

Secondary IDE Channel is set as follows:
Device 0 - transfer mode is set to DMA if available, current transfer mode is set to Ultra DMA Mode 2

Device 1 - transfer mode is set to DMA if available, current transfer mode is set to Ultra DMA Mode 2

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brobear, you seem to have it under control, those are all good suggestions. His system seems more than capable for video work. I have a hard time believing nothing has changed on a system when it worked one minute and didn't the next. There is usually always something different between software loads to cause the problems. well, 99% of the time anyway. Trying a different software would be a good indicater of whether it's his PC or shrink that has the problem.

riveroer, this doesn't mean I don't believe you have done nothing, don't take it the wrong way, you may have inadvertantly done something and not realized it, something we all are capable of. PCs are very finicky and lots of times it doesn't take much. We all have been there, done that. LOL

brbear, I'm doing some serious burning today, I went and got 6 new movies. I'm kinda checking in and out every couple of hours when I get a break between programs running. Talk to ya later.

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I love the new Shrink program as well but for some reason it locks up whenever I try to do compression. If when re-authoring it is at 100 percent and doesn't require compression it works fine, but when a movie is a bit to big with locks up everytime during the encoding process, is there something that I am not doing right ? I am a bit confused and dis appointed. Please help anyone if you have the answer

mlemen

Brobear,

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm in the process of trying DVD X Copy Gold. This is my roginal software and it worked sometime and then it did not work anymore. This is the main reason that I decided to start using DVD Shrink. I had purchased DVD X Copy, the I got DVD X Copy Gold, then I got DVD X Copy Platinum and they would work for a while and then they would not work or give alot of errors during the burning process. But I try once again.

mlemen
First of all, we need to know the specs for the PC you are trying to record with.
CPU type and speed
RAM amount
HDD size and free space
OS
Brand, model and drive configuration

Transcoding a larger video onto the smaller target reguires the PC to use more memory. It sounds like something may be causing your system resources to be overburdened. Just a guess at this point, but you may be having hardware problems instead of software ones.

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I Have a 1.3 Gig Hp with approximately 400 meg of ram, 120 gb hard drive with about 50 gig free and a 7200 rpm matrox drive. Operating system is Windows XP and I have not upgraded to SP2 yet. I had this identical problem with the previous version of DVD Shrink. Please let me know your thoughts.

Mlemen

Have you tried using any other recording software to transcode video to DVD?

Your system is suitable to use shrink unless you are encountering some sort of memory problem or interference. Shrink by itself causes no particular problems to cause a crash. It happening with an earlier version sort of eliminates it being just a bad installation.

Just to run a check, close all the programs running in the background if there are any. Use an RW to record to, so you don't waste any media. Open the Task Manger. While recording watch the scale and see what the system memory levels are and where the level is when the crash occurrs. Depending on the setup of the system, your requirements may be too high for the additional burden. That would be one quick check. Make sure you use a movie large enough to cause the problem.

If you haven't tried transcoding with other software, try it to see what happens. Most of the software companies offer free trials. Try using the free DVD Decrypter to rip and use the trial DVDCopy2 from InterVideo.com to transcode and burn. That will give you an idea of whether it is just recording in general or A particular software causing the problem.

Let us know what you find.

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I will give that a try, I have used dvdxcopy express and dvdxcopy and it never happened there. But I will try what you are suggesting and see. If nothing else I will upgrade to a faster machine with more memory as a last resort, Thanks for your help and I will elt you know what happens

mlemen

Usually the problem is with a program like Xcopy and one uses Shrink to check the system. Be sure to check the memory.

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Brobear,

I tried DVD X Copy and it worked. I will try to delete Shrink and download it again and re-install this program from the system

Regards,

ER

Good luck. Let us know what happens.

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Well, I tried closing everything running and watched memory and nothing changed, it didn't use up memory, the processor peaked to 100 % but would drop down to 75% to 90 % 95 % and go back up. go about 49 % of the movie encoded and it locked up my system ??

Any other ideas ?? please ?

Just want to try another tack to see if I can locate the problem. It is difficult not being hands on.

Use Shrink to Create an ISO image to the HD and select DVD Decrypter to burn the ISO file.

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Hi all. :)

mlemen, your problem is probably caused by overheating.
DVD Shrink is quite demanding on systems, especially when medium to high levels of compression are required, and/or Deep Analysis or its new Quality Options are used.

You could try monitoring your processor temperature, to check at what point the crash occurs.
A temporary solution would be to open your PC case.

P.S: is your processor overclocked?

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Brobear & Team,

Thanks for all sugestions regarding DVD Shrink. I have implemented them and it works now. Thanks a lot.

Regards,

ER

Glad to hear it, riveroer. :)

Would you mind letting us know how you solved the issue?

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riveroer
It is useful to the thread to let us know your solutiion for the problem. It could prove helpful to someone else reading the thread later on.

@dd
When did you get that Senior thing hung on you? Now you have to play nice like me.

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He'll be impossible now! lol

Btw, that title kinda makes you two look old, looks good on me tho.

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Thanks to you all for your suggestions, I think in my case I found the problem, I tried most of the things suggested but this didn't seem to fix the problem. I unistalled the program and re-installed it, this seemed to change a little as the processor didn't stay pegged at 100%, but it still locked up, so i tried something else and haven't had a problem since. I dis-abled the real time protection on my norton anti virus, no problems since then. Thank You all for the suggestions, peace

mlemen

hi

@ DD nice to see you matey! hows it ?

yes riveroer how did you sort the prob?

Thx...

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Hi Rotary. :)

I'm ok, thanks. How you doing? ;)

Senior Member, me??? LOL

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riveroer, I am curious, we all are curious, how did you solve the problem? One of the things that makes this forum work is the give and take scenario. By passing down what you did, even if you don't want to help others, we can use that info to help exxpand our knowledge base.

Besides, my curiosity is killin' me! lol Sooo please tell us, what did you do? :)

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I had the exact same problem, went through a lot of the same steps to isolate and finally found that disabling Norton's real-time file protection solved the problem..... Thanks MLEMEN!!!

jabak
Thought this thread had "gone South". I have Norton AV and don't experience the problem. I'd say that is one of those problems that varies by system. What is your CPU and how much RAM do you have? I have a 2.8GHz P4 with 1GB RAM that I do most of my recording on and haven't had a bit of trouble locking up; that's with DVD Shrink and a number of other recording apps I use.

1.8GHz P4 with 512 RAM....

I think I spoke too soon... encoded two dvd's and locked on the third one again.?.! I thought I had finally come across the answer... havn't seen the Norton AV solution in many other places so thought I would resurect.

After trying just about every DMA, master/slave, aspi, drivers, etc. setting I think I'm going to give up and use something else. Proabably Intervideo DVD Copy or just stick with DVDxCopy.

This is a thread for commenting on the new version of DVD Shrink 3.2. Been out since July, so not that new anymore. You need to open a thread in DVD for Newbies or the DVD Shrink section and see if the forum members can help you out.

There are a number of things that can cause the problem you're having. If you go with trying another app, InterVideo gives a good trial on the DVDCopy3. Take it for a road test to see if you have the same problem with it. That'll tell you if you're having a problem with a certain recording app, like Shrink, or a system problem. I sometimes suggest a good trial of another app in diagnosing recording software problems.

DVDXCopy, or at least the old 321 software, is becoming a bit dated. Unless you have it, I usually suggest going with something else. It's a good app, but no support except from forums and now has to rely on external rippers for some of the new DVDs like RE2 and LBB with unreadable sector encryption. Without development, it will continue to fall behind.