DVD Shrink Lock up

[StrawMan]

Last night I was using DVD Shrink to shrink several DVDs that I had previously ripped to my Hard Drive using DVD Decrypter. After I shrunk the first one I clicked on the Files on Hard Drive button and selected the next disk I wanted to shrink (I had 7 in all.)

After the second one was done, I clicked OK and DVD Shrink Locked up. I had to End the Process in Windows 2000 and start Shrink again every time I wanted to start another. This happened every time after that.

I want to believe it is something in my system that is wrong, since it has been forever since I reinstalled, and I intend on starting fresh as soon as I have the time to do a total re-install (I don't have an up-to-date image anywhere, so it will take a good day or so.)

I was using the latest version 3.1.4 and going from hard drive to hard drive with no disk burning involved.

Any ideas on what I can do to prevent these lock-ups in the future?

[mrbass]

did you rip a) ALL files or just b) main movie? It should be b.

[insertdisk]

I think he means it should be "a" , I am pretty sure you need to rip all files. I rip to an ISO and then mount with a virtual drive and go from there. All files should pretty much do the same thing.

[layer3maniac]

I must not be the only person who rips the entire iso. Never had any problems yet...

[Alurker]

This maybe off subject and may not belong here but on the topic on riping and burning, I have never rip to a ISO and then mount it to a virtual drive. I just rip using file mode and then run it through shrink or recode2 or IC8 and it works just fine.

So what is the advantage or reason to mount a ISO over just ripping in file mode?

[Kedirekin]

The advantages are pretty minor (for example, if you use IC on a mounted ISO, IC can preserve any DVD-ROM Extras).

Mostly it's personal preference.

[StrawMan]

When I decrypted I decrypted all files...I always rip all files, and if I want movie only I do the deed in DVD Shrink because I can do start/end adjustments or add extras as extra titles.

[Alurker]

I played with a few RW's and rip a few DVD's into a ISO that where under the size limit for no compression and found I could quickly burn them to disk with dvd-decrypter and didnt have to use any other program :) and so far everything work just fine! and was pretty quick and simple to do!
Think its time to do some more reading and learning and playing around with it:cool: