I am a newbie.

Just tried three times to encode a ripped movie with Shrink(used DVD Decrypter to do the rip).

Each time all goes well until the run reaches about a third way through the movie, then my whole computer freezes and I have to hard boot.

Why is that?

I am using "Hard Disk Folder" as my backup target.

you first need to optimise your system for best performance. also, you really don't need decrypter. see here and here

Revised DvD Shrink Guide

Thanx a lot, Ghosters. It very useful!

Thanks. I have followed your instructions regarding Shrink Ghosters. Everything is ok until I come to decode and then as I said my computer freezes a third to a half way through. I am still trying to get the Decrypted movie on my hard drive to decode with Shrink.

In case it is a hard drive problem I ran Defrag sucessfully in safe mode last night and will run Scandisk tonight as they take hours to do their thing. I am taking this piece by piece until I figure out the problem.

I have made sure I have enough space on my hard drive for both the decrypted movie and the Shrink copy.

If all goes well with Scandisk and there are no hard disk problems then I am suspecting a software or program conflict somewhere. I have this suspicion because the Power DVD player that came packaged with the drive would not work and froze my eject button on the DVD drive. I changed to WIN DVD and I have no problems playing a DVD from my DVDdrive or the Decrypted movie off my hard drive. Also when I tried to run Defrag and Scandisk in normal mode both of them stuttered every minute or so sending the run right back to the begining as if a program running in the background was interfering. I even used Task Manager to shut off all programs except Sysdisc and Explorer and closed everything in my task bar but still got the same stuttering and hence the safe mode run. (I did the same when running Shrink but still got the freeze).

I will report back but if anyone has any other ideas having read this thread please feel free to post your input. Its just a question of trying everything you guys suggest and one of them will work.

By the way, once I have solved this problem I am dying to try and see if Shrink really can decrypt and decode sucessfully. That would save time with Decrypter! And yet if you read all of the "How To" articles they mostly recommend using Decrypter first. We shall see but first things first.

chrose, what OS are you running ? it does sound as though something is at fault with the hardware of your PC. i have never heard of Sysdisc.

Yo Ghosters-

Thank you SO very much for putting together your DVD Shrink guide-

This is going to help a lot of folks out there-

Mike

thanks BM7. i thought i'd just cover the basics in order to get people started. once you get used to it, like i did, then you can play around with all the other options and choices and settings that DvD Shrink offers.

Ghosters, all of those guides are awesome!
Very informative, thanks.

thanks Nemesys

Umm im not a moderator or anything and cant help with your burning problem but it sounds like you might have a storage problem, in that your HD is nearly full . How big a HD do you have and what available HD space? Also what cpu and ram is installed and what OS. 98 se i suspect. uninstall all un needed apps and game u no longer play. Then do scan diak and defrag.

Ghosters: I ran Scandisk sucessfully in safe mode and attempted to use Shrink on the Decrypted movie after removing all unwanted programs running in the background. Still freezes. (Not necessarily at the same place either).

I then deleted the movie from my hard drive and deleted Decrypter and Nero incase they were interfering with Shrink. I then ran Shrink on several different movies hoping it would decript and encode. It does not even finish deep analasisbefore freezing the copmuter!! At least when I used Decrypter it permitted deep analasis before freezing whilst decoding!!

Any further suggestions? Is it simply Windows Me? Could it be a video card problem? Could it be the Drive (or CPU) getting overheated? (I do not get any error messages before the freeze except once when the message told me my scanner program had failed even though not using the scanner. Maybe I should unplug the scanner??)

Just trying to give you all the symptoms like a good patient.


I am running a Pentium III 995 GH with 128MB of RAM and 14 GH of hard drive space.

you got Windows Many Errors { ME } ! OMG ! why didn't ya say so !
gee, i don't know, i reckon it's both ME and your hardware combined. sorry, but i have no further ideas.

Man, you need a new PC . Almost everything you have can cause problems. Windows Me are unstable/unreliable. Hard disk is too small. Todays programs can even want 10-15 GB free space to work with. Memory is too few and lots of swap file usage is forced.

PS: Ghost, your guide saved me from asking 10-15 individual questions in this forum, by the time I'd purchase a DVD recorder. It would be nice even for FAQ or sticky in the newbie forum

windows ME = mostly errattick