Zaphod_B
12th March 2008, 17:19
Hi all, I'm new to the forum, although I've been using the resources on Doom9 for a while. Although I'm not a total newbie to DVD ripping and backups, I am fairly new to DVD-RB and reducing DVD-9 to DVD-5, which is what I use it for.
I am currently using DVD-Rebuilder Pro, v1.27.2, to rebuild DVDs from ISOs mounted in Daemon Tools, having been ripped in DVD-Decrypter.
After a few successful attempts at backing up DVDs, I have recently started having a major problem on a few occasions... during either the Encode or Rebuild processes, my PC crashed. Or rather, it froze up... completely, no movement onscreen, doing absolutely nothing and leaving me unable to do anything, even move the mouse cursor or Ctrl-Alt-Del. The only thing I can do is to switch off and restart.
Now I don't know if DVD-RB is causing this problem (so far it has only happened while using DVD-RB, and I use the PC for plenty of other things)... it might be a hardware issue or something else, I'm embarassed to say I don't know. If anyone has an idea in that regard, I'd be very grateful to hear it. But anyway, the crashes themselves are not the only reason I'm here.
What concerns me is this: Having waited sometimes up to three hours for encoding/rebuilding, that time could be completely wasted. The last time, it crashed during the Rebuilding process... I would have thought that since Encoding was successful, I would simply be able to restart the Rebuilding process rather than have to start right from scratch. I checked DVD-RB's Help file, and it says it is possible to continue after a crash...
"In order to resume, you must have "one click mode" disabled or it will start from the beginning.
Press encode and DVD-RB will ask if you want to resume the project."
... well I do have one-click-mode disabled, but when I start up DVD-RB again it does not give me the option of pressing Encode. Those buttons are greyed out, because the Current Source Path is now empty (Daemon Tools now having unmounted the DVD on restart)... so I mounted it in Daemon again, opened up DVD-RB, and it recognised the DVD but didn't give me the option of continuing with Rebuild, but simply acted as if it was starting with a new DVD.
At this point I thought I could still recover, as I had tried "Save Project" (which I had assumed was for this kind of situation) after Encoding had completed. However I now noticed it had not saved as a .RBD file... but as a .RBT file. I have no idea why it did this, since I didn't add the file extension when saving, DVD-RB did. I tried opening it anyway... this didn't help me with my problem, but did create a new one... DVD-RB told me that "skins have been updated", and now every box in DVD-RB Pro is empty (work path, application paths etc), and my various settings have been undone... it looks like I will have to either remember every setting and where every file and folder is, or reinstall (probably quicker).
So now I am left with several questions. I don't expect that they'll all be answered, but if you can help with any then I'd be really grateful.
1) Why is my PC crashing when running DVD-RB? (I don't think it's the encoder since sometimes it crashes in Encode and sometimes in Rebuild)
2) After crashing, why can't DVD-RB recognise that I was in the middle of Rebuild last time, and give me the option of continuing/restarting Rebuild rather than the whole 3-step process? Is there a way to do this?
3) Why did it save my project as .RBT instead of .RBD?
4) Now that opening the .RBT file has erased all the settings and paths I was using, is there any easy way to restore them?
Sorry for rambling, but I seem to have so many problems here that I didn't know where to start. Any advice or thoughts at all would be greatly appreciated... thanks in advance :)
I am currently using DVD-Rebuilder Pro, v1.27.2, to rebuild DVDs from ISOs mounted in Daemon Tools, having been ripped in DVD-Decrypter.
After a few successful attempts at backing up DVDs, I have recently started having a major problem on a few occasions... during either the Encode or Rebuild processes, my PC crashed. Or rather, it froze up... completely, no movement onscreen, doing absolutely nothing and leaving me unable to do anything, even move the mouse cursor or Ctrl-Alt-Del. The only thing I can do is to switch off and restart.
Now I don't know if DVD-RB is causing this problem (so far it has only happened while using DVD-RB, and I use the PC for plenty of other things)... it might be a hardware issue or something else, I'm embarassed to say I don't know. If anyone has an idea in that regard, I'd be very grateful to hear it. But anyway, the crashes themselves are not the only reason I'm here.
What concerns me is this: Having waited sometimes up to three hours for encoding/rebuilding, that time could be completely wasted. The last time, it crashed during the Rebuilding process... I would have thought that since Encoding was successful, I would simply be able to restart the Rebuilding process rather than have to start right from scratch. I checked DVD-RB's Help file, and it says it is possible to continue after a crash...
"In order to resume, you must have "one click mode" disabled or it will start from the beginning.
Press encode and DVD-RB will ask if you want to resume the project."
... well I do have one-click-mode disabled, but when I start up DVD-RB again it does not give me the option of pressing Encode. Those buttons are greyed out, because the Current Source Path is now empty (Daemon Tools now having unmounted the DVD on restart)... so I mounted it in Daemon again, opened up DVD-RB, and it recognised the DVD but didn't give me the option of continuing with Rebuild, but simply acted as if it was starting with a new DVD.
At this point I thought I could still recover, as I had tried "Save Project" (which I had assumed was for this kind of situation) after Encoding had completed. However I now noticed it had not saved as a .RBD file... but as a .RBT file. I have no idea why it did this, since I didn't add the file extension when saving, DVD-RB did. I tried opening it anyway... this didn't help me with my problem, but did create a new one... DVD-RB told me that "skins have been updated", and now every box in DVD-RB Pro is empty (work path, application paths etc), and my various settings have been undone... it looks like I will have to either remember every setting and where every file and folder is, or reinstall (probably quicker).
So now I am left with several questions. I don't expect that they'll all be answered, but if you can help with any then I'd be really grateful.
1) Why is my PC crashing when running DVD-RB? (I don't think it's the encoder since sometimes it crashes in Encode and sometimes in Rebuild)
2) After crashing, why can't DVD-RB recognise that I was in the middle of Rebuild last time, and give me the option of continuing/restarting Rebuild rather than the whole 3-step process? Is there a way to do this?
3) Why did it save my project as .RBT instead of .RBD?
4) Now that opening the .RBT file has erased all the settings and paths I was using, is there any easy way to restore them?
Sorry for rambling, but I seem to have so many problems here that I didn't know where to start. Any advice or thoughts at all would be greatly appreciated... thanks in advance :)