DVD Shrink Slowdown

[alsemail]

Hi All

I wondered if anyone has come up with a solution to the seemingly known problem of Shrink encoding taking longer over time.

I have tried all the usual things, Re-installing Shrink, checking my IDE controller settings are at DMA,checked my task manager etc, but it is definitely taking longer to encode. Discs that were taking 1-1 1/2 hours are now taking up to 3. I haven't changed any settings and I always did a deep scan to keep quality.

Wondered if anyone had any new suggestions.

Thanks

Al

[setarip_old]

Hi!the seemingly known problem of Shrink encoding taking longer over time.There is no such "known problem". Such a slowdown would only be attributable to either a drive reset to PIO (rather than DMA) or the current use of AEC versus AEC not having been used previously.

Are you CERTAIN your drives/burners are set to DMA? Look carefully to see if a setting says "Transfer mode - DMA if available" but also says "Current transfer mode - PIO"...

[alsemail]

Definitely. Just checked again, but on other forums I'm reading the same thing. People give the same advice, the poster follows it and it makes no difference, I'm not complaining as Shrink is a great program but it seems odd that so many people notice a slowdown but no-one can give a reason for it.:confused:

[dialysis1]

Have you tried a defrag?
http://www.sharpened.net/glossary/definition.php?defragment

[alsemail]

First thing I did after checking my IDE settings, but thx anyway

[alsemail]

Been using the DVDShrink forum for a while now, someone there suggested doing a firmware update on my Dvd writer.

It's like night and day, encoding in about 1/3 of the time it was taking and back to the way it was. :D

Thought you might be interested for future posts.

[setarip_old]

The only reason a firmware update would help you is if you've changed (different MIC and or higher speed) the burnable media you're now using - which you didn't mention in your initial post...

[alsemail]

It's the same media, it's the encoding time that has reduced, not the burning. I'll admit I'm not really overly PC knowledgeable, I just use applications, but a few people posted it and it worked. I don't really understand why, but who am I to question.

[jwo62]

Glad to hear your problem is fixed.

But I am curious still as to the actual cause.

by any chance,are you using an on the fly ripper? what ripping method do you use?

are you ripping with the same drive you burn with?

[alsemail]

I'm using DVD Decrypter (with Ripit4me and FixVTS when required) and DVD Shrink. The media is the same speed, although better quality, and I have 2 identical burners in my PC and it doesn't seem to matter which way round I use them.
Sorry I can't shed more light on this it just seemed to work.

[setarip_old]

although better qualityThis means you are using DIFFERENT media - which is apparently more compatible with your burner(s) and updated firmware...