If you have blue screens with DVDShrink or Recode

[DDogg]

This may be specific to my OC'ed NF7S Rev2 with two striped drive sets, but I thought I would post in case it might help somebody else with the same problem as this drove me nuts for a long while.

My machine is set up with a highly tested and stable OC'ed of 2821 Mhz (13X217). I'm talking days of P95TT, multiple 32M Super-Pi's, and everything else I could test with including all CCE variant encoding programs. No problems.

The only problem I did encountered was with DVDShrink and Recode throwing a nasty blue screen in the compression stage. DVDShrink was a particular problem when the 'adaptive error compensation' was used.

Finally realized it was the 'Enhanced PCI' setting which I had left enabled in bios. Once that was turned off, I had no further problems. I also set PCIBusLatency at 64, but I don't know if that is really needed. HD speed was not effected as far as I could figure out.

So, my suggestion if you are having a problem like this is to check your settings for an equivalent to 'enhanced pci' and disable it. Increasing PCIBusLatency to 64 or 128 might also help and does not seem to adversely effect drive transfer speed.

Maybe the author of dvdshrink could do a quick peak at the code to make sure nothing is amiss. My drive sets transfer at something like 80 MB/s and I have source on one set and destination directed to the other. Maybe it is a timing thing, or it could well be something specific only with my machine. I'm not saying anything is incorrect with DVDSrink, just that checking it would not hurt.

[rowdydog_tx]

Actually, I've been having the same problem with DVD Shrink and the blue screens. It also happens when the Adaptive Error Compensation was used. EVERY time I use it, I get the blue screen when it starts encoding. I finally un-installed it and re-installed the prior version. Since then, I've not had the problem.

My system has:
160GB HD
AMD Athlon XP 3000+ processor
Nvidia Geoforce MX graphics card
1024 MB RAM

[DDogg]

Actually, I've been having the same problem with DVD Shrink and the blue screens. It also happens when the Adaptive Error Compensation was used. EVERY time I use it, I get the blue screen when it starts encoding. I finally un-installed it and re-installed the prior version. Since then, I've not had the problem.
Ah, I was wondering if I was the only person that had happened to. I hope for some comment from the author as I have just seen this happen on another machine.

Anybody else seeing a BSOD with the AEC on?

[shoarthing]

Hi - with AEC set on [AFAIK permanently 'on' is the 'max smoothness' settings - yes?] my dual Opteron box will blue-screen during the compression stage, while my dual Athlon MP box never blue-screens. Same rev DVDShrink 32015. Both boxes 24/7 stable.