DVD Shrink severe slowdown problem

[Morlock]

This is an odd one. DVD Shrink 3.2 is now experiencing severe slowdown. I can normally back up a reauthored movie (with no compression) in oh, 20-30 minutes or so. Now, I'm encoding one and it's very slow. The rate is currently at 141 k/s and rising (30mb buffered and 11 HOURS remaining), but it's rising very slowly. Initially it was around 30 k/s and it took at least 15 minutes to get where it is now.

I've only made two changes on my system that I can think of that might be causing this. First, I replaced my cpu a few days ago (850mhz T-bird to a 1500mhz T-bird). Second, I added the software needed to do what Jynks suggests in this thread:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=77266

I think I encoded a movie between First and Second above, and it went normally, so I think it isn't the cpu (I benchmarked the cpu with FreshDiagnose and it tested fine). I could be wrong about that though (I might've just made a backup w/o needing to encode). I'd really rather not have to drive an hour to grab thermal paste so I can swap my cpu back out to check.

The newly installed software:
AviSynth 2.5.5
DVD Rebuilder 0.67
Donald Graft's DVD2AVI dll (plugin for AviSynth)
QuEnc 0.56

Can anyone suggest what might be the problem here?
My OS is W2K Pro
I rip with DVD Decrypter 3.5.1.0
I burn with InstantDisc
I rarely use DVDFab

[Morlock]

I'm sorry, the problem apparently had nothing to do with any of that. It was just my Web browser (Mozilla) hogging resources. I didn't even have to do a restart.

Again, my mistake. Mods, feel free to delete this thread.

[vtgreenboy]

I have recently had a similar problem on LOTR: ROTK extended.
I ripped all sorts of movies this weekend with no problems, then I try this one and i t g o e s v e r r y s l o w .
SLOW!
I did not under stand what the above user did to solve his problem.
I am using xp on a celeron 2.2.
Maybe it is just that movie.
If you think so, let me know, or any tips to try and solve the problem. Thanks
:confused:

[n3rdyguy]

Open your task manager, see if any programs is using the cpu more than usual (which is about 0-1% some of the time). And programs sucking ram, can be dangerous ;)

[blutach]

@vtgreenboy

Hi and welcome to the forums. :)

If you are using the deep analysis with AEC and the compression figure is high (say down to 70% and lower - as would happen for LOTR being such a long movie), then Shrink has lots of work to do. This is normal.

I've seen it happen even when short clips have been encoded at too high a bit rate and I've wanted to trim them down to size (eg I had a 30 minute episode that took up 1,900Mb when the other episodes took up 1,100 MB. Shrinking just this episode took ages.

So, if your shrink has little compression, I would bet it "flies".

One answer would be to split the movie into 2 disks - I tend to do this on long flicks anyway.

Regards