DVD shrink is too long !

[deschampst]

HI there,
I have a question.
I used different methods to rip DVDs, then I "shrink" them with DVD shrink !
When the original is big (50-60%), DVD shrink is taking 3 to 4 hours to shrink it, depending on the sharpness selection.
Of course, I used the deep analysis. But still, I think it 's very long.
And this has nothing to do with the burner, because the burning is fine, it's the encoding which is very long. And during these longs hours, shrink is the only program running on the PC.
My PC is an Athlon XP 2600, with 512 meg RAM.
Is it normal ?
How can I encode faster ?
Thank you.

[MaximRecoil]

How can I encode faster ?Get a faster processor, or use less/none of the "Quality settings" (such as deep analysis and adaptive error compensation).

Unless you have a boatload of spyware and viruses on your PC using up your CPU clock cycles; there is really nothing more you can do. 3 or 4 hours for deep analysis and error compensation on a 50 to 60% ratio movie sounds about right to me for your hardware.

[VWRacer]

I would suggest checking your IDE ATA controller settings. If everything isn't on DMA, that will most likely be your culprit.

Racer

[BSpielbauer]

VWRacer is correct, the first thing to check would be to see if your settings have been changed from "DMA" mode to "PIO" mode. This is by far the most common cause of slow speeds when it comes to DVD ripping and / or burning. It happens often (as soon as you experience six cyclic redundancy errors), and it is something Windows will change quietly without ever informing you.

Do a simple search on "DMA mode" and you will find lots of instructions for how to check this, and how to fix this.

-Bruce

[Maxxman]

Wow, 3-4 hrs for a shrink you lucky thing you!!!!! :)

[mojo13x]

Would You Mind "Walking Me Through That" ????
It's Taking Me 5-6 Hours.....
It Gets Longer With Each DVD I Record....
Could You Please Just "TYPE" Out The Steps....
It Would Elimnt. At Least One More Step Towrd
The Answr To My Prob. "THANX"

[philco]

when i use dvd shrink in re-author mode it only takes about 5 to 20 minutes, depending on how big the movie ends up to be to shrink. but i only do the main movie. try re-author mode to see if its faster for you.

[Stone Knife]

If you have the option in BIOS, see if you can set the CPU bus speed to be the same as the RAM bus speed. Add more RAM. Get a couple more drives, read from one and shrink to another.

I'm running a Barton 2800 with the rambus and CPU bus both running in synch at 200 MHz (DDR) with 1 Gig of Corsair RAM in dual-channel mode, and it shrinks a 9-gig movie to DVD 5 in about 45 minutes from very beginning to done. (On an Asus A7N8X deluxe MB).

I have a Promise IDE controller running an extra drive, so with this configuration I'm reading from one drive on the Promise controller and writing to another which is on IDE bus 2 and neither one are the system (C:\) drive. I think this results in faster reads and writes than if you're trying to do it all on one drive, or using the system drive.

Also having 8 MEGS of buffer on the drive (such as Western Digital has) will help with your throughput.

:)

[writersblock29]

@deschampst and mojo13x

Using Windows XP (it's been so long since I've used any other operating system, I can't guarantee this'll work on them, but for XP this is the way to go), go to "control panel/performance and maintenance/system/device manager."

There will be a little window that will pop up with all kinds of system information on it. Select "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" by either clicking on the "+" box or simply double-clicking the entire selection. From the drop-down that results, right-click on "primary IDE channel" and choose "properties." Make sure DMA is enabled. While you're here, do the same for "secondary IDE channel" just to be sure that DMA is enabled for your DVD drives.

This is assuming that your configurations are a bit older and not customized in any way; most pre-configured systems can be checked this way.

[tantraman]

Wow, 3-4 hrs for a shrink you lucky thing you!!!!! :)


HMM It takes me about 30 minutes.

[Squee77]

Heh.... shrinking a movie takes me less then 20 mins to shrink.

[m1ckran]

If it's your disk system that's causing the problem and your controller is not on PIO (as mentioned above) you could try running chkdsk on your drive and then defragmenting it. It's something that's often overlooked but it can make a huge difference to disk performance.

It's also worth checking for malware, again as previously mentioned. My favourite antivirus program is AVG Free.

I usually use DVD Rebuilder nowadays but, whether I'm running Shrink or Rebuilder, I usually configure my pc to switch off on completion and leave it running when I go to bed.

[Squee77]

@m1ckran
I see your confused about my reply what i mean is.. i don't run it from hdd i run it from dvd and using dvd shrink it only takes me less than 20 mins.

---edited for more---
Yes i usually sometimes make backups on my hdd and then shrink it with dvd shrink to make the process faster. I often use MS defragmenting program that i could shrink less then 10mins from 7.89gb to 4.7gb

[dragongodz]

i could shrink less then 10mins from 7.89gb to 4.7gb
and thats with AEC enabled ????? what system have you got and whats the actually percentage reduction shown in dvdshrink once unwanted audio etc is deselected ?

Of course, I used the deep analysis.
well you can disable that IMHO. it only gains a tiny improvement(if any sometimes) so not really worth the extra time it takes. AEC is where the main quality improvement comes from.

[Squee77]

@dragongodz
to your question yes aec is enabled. I have a custom built pc with 4000+amd @2.41ghz,1GB Ram,160gb 7.2k rpm western digital and a 256mb radeon X800gto @ 980mhz core clock it doesn't matter which percentage reduction for my computer because my hdd is bottlenecking my cpu.

[VWRacer]

At the risk of sounding ignorant, what is AEC?

Racer

[setarip_old]

It's an abbreviation for "adaptive error compensation" - an additional (time consuming) quality enhancing capability/option in DVD Shrink ...

[VWRacer]

Thanks for the info. However, I have been unable to find this in DVDShrink. I'm curious to check it out, where would I find it?

Thanks again,
Racer :thanks:

[setarip_old]

DVD Shrink v.3.2xxx - When you select "Backup!", click on the "Quality Settings" tab...

[VWRacer]

Thanks Setarip. I didn't have anything to burn at the moment, so I couldn't find it. Appreciate the help.

Racer

[setarip_old]

Thanks Setarip.As always, my pleasure ;>}