i have successfully used dvd shrink several times. it seems though that only about half the movies i try to back up are successfully written to an iso image. i get a similar error message with each movie. it is something like failed to write xxx_xx_xx.vob file. access is denied. it keeps happening towards the end of the process usually with 70+% already completed. i have tried decrypting the dvds with dvd decrypter onto the hard drive and then using dvd shrink, but i get the same error when i am using dvd shrink. this is also confusing....i tried re-authoring the dvd to just have the movie without anything else since it got past those files before and it was a vob file in the extras it was having a problem with. however it then gave the same error but with a vob file that it had gotten past before. here is just some miscellaneous information that might be helpful in figuring out the problem: it is version 3.1....should be the newest, i just downloaded it less than a month ago movies ive had problems with: life of brian, road to perdition (both needed compressed to fit on a single dvd+r). i have successfully compressed movies to fit on a single dvd+r with dvd shrink before. i am trying to create an iso disc image file. should i try backing it up to files on the hard drive and then burning with those files instead of the disc image? i have been running it in low priority mode, but not using the computer...i unchecked low priority mode this last time and it is encoding as we speak so im not sure if it will give the same error or not it seems to be going really slow, but maybe that it how it is supposed to be. usually takes around an hour to encode. the rate is usually between 1500 KB/s and 2200 KB/s and the buffered is always under 100 MB. the computer has a 2.4 GHz pentium 4, liteon dvd rw drive (i believe it is the 812-s or something like that, ill have to check), windows 98, 512 MB of DDR PC3200 RAM. i have not been performing a deep analysis before backup. what do you guys think is the problem and how do i correct it? thanks in advance
Windows 98 uses a FAT 32 file system on hard disc drives. FAT 32 has a 4GB file size limit. Most ISO Disc Image files are larger than that. That is why you are getting that error. If you were using a version of Windows like XP/2000 that could use a NTFS file system you would not have this problem. The Good News. The new DVD Shrink 3.2 makes split ISO files that fit on FAT 32 drives and can be burned by DVD Decrypter.
How much free space do you have on the drive that you're writing the .iso to? Possibly you need to do a defrag on the drive because it doesnt have a big enough chunk of empty space for the file... I'm a newbie at this, but I've backed up a bunch of DVDs already without a single problem using DVD Shrink. But that's my uneducated advice. EDIT : Ahh yes, Win98, didn't see that. That's probably the problem right there.
thanks a lot. yeah, you are right about the fat32 file size limit...i didnt think of that. i also realized now that the iso files were only 3.99 GB. i think ill just extract the compressed dvd files into a hard drive folder instead of an iso image until i get windows 2000 on there. thanks again
You are using Shrink 3.1. The new DVD Shrink 3.2 makes split ISO files that fit on FAT 32 drives and can be burned by DVD Decrypter.
yeah, ill go ahead and download that. ive got win2k on my computer now....i was going to put it on there anyway. i just hadnt got around to it yet. it is working great now. thanks for all your help
