DVD Shrink slowing down

Movie Copy Software
#1

I recently installed a Sony DVD burner (DRU-810A) in my computer at work because some of the guys want to back up DVDs. I have used DVD shrink for the past few years and have been happy with it, so I installed that at work.

At first everything was fine, the discs were encoding at over 7,000 kB/s and it only took 10 minutes to encode a full DVD.

After about a week and a half, the speed dropped all of a sudden to just over 1,000 kB/s and it took over an hour to encode a full DVD.

I searched the board to see if anyone was having issues similar to mine, but I never found someone who was getting fast speeds and then have it slow down like that. Most of the speed issues were fixed by enabling DMA, so I made sure to do that, and now speeds are up to 4,000 kB/s which is decent, but if possible we would like to get it back up to 7,000 kB/s

We are running it on a 2.79 GHz, P4 with 768 MB of RAM. Its a Dell 4600.

#2

Is this happened with some certain discs and do you’ve tried other discs?

#3

We burned a lot at 7,000 kB/s and then when things slowed down, we tried 3-4 different movies and they were all at that speed.

#4

Do you’ve checked maybe the box analyse and backup in low priority mode?

#5

Yeah, its backing up in low priority mode.

#6

Uncheck it and give it a try.

#7

Ok,

Low Priority Mode - 4,200 kB/s
Not Low Priority Mode - 3,600 kB/s

Any other ideas?

By the way, thanks for your help.

#8

I’m sure you’ll find here some nice advices
http://forum.digital-digest.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47035