dvd shrink has sloooooowed dowwwwn

I have gone into device manger and "use DMA if available " is checked. However on my DVD drive it is reporting that it is using PIO. How do I force it to use DMA.

I have primary and secondary channels utilised with two hard drives on one and the cd and separate dvd writer on the secondary IDE

 

Just an opinion:

I'm sure that there are many issues that could cause a slowdown with DVD Shrink or other programs such as memory issues, virtual memory issues, hard drive space, etc., but I would also look at what percentage of members are having those problems. If we have 300,000 plus members on aD, how many have or use DVD Shrink? Let's say only 50,000 for an example, then if we have even 1% of those members having a problem that would be 500 members. I don't see 500 members posting these problems for speed issues. I think we all would agree that we see a lot more issues with DMA then any other cause and even those are not in the 500's.

So if others are having these issues other then DMA we should look at similarities between those members, corrupt installs, or other possible issues other then Windows XP. And if this happens to those only on XP, then what other software issues combined with XP could cause this?

Most here do use Windows XP home or Professional. Its not going away and neither are its service packs 1 and 2. All my machines have XP with SP2 and even pushing my PC’s with overclocking and even some dos programs from the early 90’s, they still perform flawlessly, for the most part. Believe me when I say that I am not a fan of Bill Gates, just a realist that things change and we all move on.

 

i've been having the same problems. Encoding time is KILLing me. Just started 20min ago and it's at 3hrs. I'm only getting 610 kbs....just looked again, now it's 601kbs. DMA settings are fine and burn time is ok. Opened tm and nothing else hogging the cpu. I'm using xp and a 16x memorex burner.
cdan

 

car.mike
I got it now...all mine are ok

 

cdan

have you checked dvd shrinks properties to make sure that when computer is used it automaticly slows down

 

i've tried it both in and out of 'low priority' mode. doesn't seem to make any difference. i usually only encode and burn when i'm done with the computer for the day. Sometimes the encoding speed drops to around 560kbps, then creeps up to over 1000 after an hr or so.

 

i've tried it both in and out of 'low priority' mode. doesn't seem to make any difference. i usually only encode and burn when i'm done with the computer for the day. Sometimes the encoding speed drops to around 560kbps, then creeps up to over 1000 after an hr or so.

 

i've tried it both in and out of 'low priority' mode. doesn't seem to make any difference. i usually only encode and burn when i'm done with the computer for the day. Sometimes the encoding speed drops to around 560kbps, then creeps up to over 1000 after an hr or so.

 

i've tried it both in and out of 'low priority' mode. doesn't seem to make any difference. i usually only encode and burn when i'm done with the computer for the day. Sometimes the encoding speed drops to around 560kbps, then creeps up to over 1000 after an hr or so.

 

how much ram do you have

 

cdan

Is this an external burner plugged into a USB port?

 

internal burner.......512k ram, 2g p4. I do defrag and chk dsk once a week, and dump all tmp files on a regular basis. I know it's slower 'cause i do the deep analysis, but this is stupid slow. Maybe i'll just have to live with it, but any help would be appreciated. thanx

 

Mine also slowed down recently. There must be something going on now. I use the copy on the hard drive and it should have nothing to do with DVD ROM and BURNER. If it is DMA or something, why it all happened in a very short of period of time. Could it be the bug in DVD shrink?

 

dalmanca,
SOMEthing is going on. Mine started slowing down a couple of months ago. I use dvd decryptor first and encode and burn from the hd. Doing THAT should make it even faster.....but doesn't seem to anymore.

 

cdan

Please do one without Deep Analysis and state your total time here, don’t worry about actually doing the burn if you don’t want. We can add the normal time to it since you also stated that it is burning at a normal speed.

 

should have something new to burn by this afternoon or tomorrow. I'll encode both ways and give you the results.
thanx, cdan

 

@cdan

Great! Thanks