Weird DVD Shrink Problem

#1

I’ve encoded a little over 50 movies with DVD Shrink now, so I know the average times it should take to encode the movies depending on the length. Here’s the weird problem. A disc that I had encoded previously only took 36 minutes to encode AND burn. I put that same disc in again and when dvdshrink started to encode it, it was then going to take 45 minutes just to encode it!!! I tried a different disc and the time to encode it was going to be a normal length.

I know I do not need to encode from the original again and just make a copy from my copy, but this problem concerns me if this might happen with other discs. Anyone know why this might happen? The only thing that has changed is I changed my burner from region 1 to region 4. BUT, the dvd burner isn’t even the drive that is doing the encoding, so I don’t see why that would effect it.

Any ideas appreciated.

#2

Has DMA been turned off for the DVD reader ? In Shrink, have you turned on “Perform Deep Analysis” or using any of the Quality Enhancement settings ? Both of these can drematically slow down the “copying” but producing a better quality finished product.

#3

Hi ChickenMan,

DMA is enabled, so that was not the problem. The weird thing now is that the problem seems to be gone…I did nothing to make it go away. I guess it is just one of those things…

#4

Could be a memory issue. Sometimes all it takes is to shut everything down and power it back up again and it will work fine.

#5

Yeah, I did that though when the problem started and the problem was still there.

#6

Perhaps spyware or virus was in the background?

#7

Perhaps. I really don’t know. I’m just glad the problem is gone.