I just purchases
AnyDVD &
CloneCD yesterday and commenced to install it on my media box, which runs Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition.
Unfortunately things don't work very well. I've had to pull the power on the box twice now, because it wouldn't shutdown properly (after waiting 10 minutes). Of course not something one likes to do on a box with 3TB of RAID-5 storage.
So my main question is, does anyone else run AnyDVD on that OS without problems?
More info about the problem:
If I don't insert a DVD in the drive, everything is fine and I can reboot if needed.
When I insert a DVD in the drive, AnyDVD says: No Disc is present in Drive D:! However, AnyDVD won't exit, and killing it from the task manager doesn't work either. In any case, shutting down either takes a very long time, or in two cases, I've finally had to pull the power.
I turned on Safe Mode, but the problem persists.
I've uninstalled AnyDVD now, because it's basically useless to me (too bad I didn't "try before you buy"... Gotta read, but I had used it on another PC and it had worked so well.
After uninstalling, when I insert a DVD, it seems just fine.
More info about my setup:
Hardware:
DVD: Plextor PX-716A
CPU: Intel Core Solo @ 1.66GHz
Motherboard: MSI 945GT Speedster-A4R
RAM: 1GB
HDD: 300GB for OS, 4x 750GB in RAID-5
Software:
AnyDVD version: 6.0.8.0
OS: Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition
Other than that almost clean install, but I am running Ardence Server, which lets me boot my media PC over the network. Also not the most conventional piece of software, but I don't suspect it to be the problem yet; I ran it on a Windows XP box and AnyDVD worked fine with that (but this was a little while ago)
If it turns out that no-one is using AnyDVD on Win2003 Server R2, then I'd be more than happy to do some testing for the developers.
Maybe silly to say, but FYI: all software is legit, registered & paid for.