backups now taking forever??

[amano jaku]

I have a Sony DRU-530A and suddenly am having the same problem as mentioned above. The ripping and shrinking is taking the same time as always. When I go to do the actual burn however it takes nearly an hour to complete. I have tried backing up several of my older movies that backed up fine before to test and encountered the same problem. No matter what movie I try to back up the length of the burn process is atrocious. BTW am using Ritek 8x DVD+r and burning at 4x, since my drive has always had problems with the 8x speed. Also the movies back up great, no problem watching them they just take four times as long.

[amano jaku]

Quick note to add to the above. I am using Nero and noticed the the buffer at the bottom is fluctuating rapidly. Going from somewhere around 76% to 3% and then back again quickly. This occurs during the entire burning process, but as mentioned before playback is not inhibited.

[amano jaku]

Not sure why this works but apparently it does, worked for mine anyway and several others. Go into your Device Manager and uninstall the IDE device containing your burner. Restart the computer, give XP time to reinstall it and you should be good to go.

[alarmguy]

I tried your technique, and backups still take 1 1/2 to two hours. Any other suggestions???

[jmet]

Check your DMA settings - How ? do this -> Go to Control Panel> System> Hardware Tab> Device Manager> IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers> Right Click Primary IDE channel (and Secondary IDE channel after you finish with Primary)> Properties> Advanced Settings Tab> Transfer Mode or <a href="http://club.cdfreaks.com/showthread.php?t=101616">click here to learn.</a>

Do the above from both "Primary & Secondary IDE channels".

I (We) and you need to look at whats in both "Transfer Mode" and "Current Transfer Mode". Screen shot below is what I'm talking about.


You can also look here for some other solutions: http://sniptools.com/vault/getting-b...windows-xp.htm

If it is in "PIO" mode. Click the "Driver" tab, and uninstall the driver. Then reboot. Upon rebooting windows will automatically reinstall the driver and it should go back to "DMA" mode.

[Philip James Gentile]

I haven't checked this thread in a while. DVD Decryptor has always taken a while, but it never took 11/2 or 2 hours. I've had the best and fastest results with 1) DVD 43, 2) DVD Shrink, and 3) burning to disk with a free version of Nero--it came along with my DVD drive, but I've been told that this version is available for free on the Nero website . A friend of mine uses expensive programs like ANY DVD/Clone DVD 2 and VOB Blanker which works great--if you wait about 2 to 4 weeks, freeware updates (like DVD 43 and Shrink) will do the same things. Good luck.

P.S. My personal favorite for burning to disk is Roxio, but Nero works just as quickly--they both burn to disk in about 10 minutes (or less) once the movies have been decrypted (about 1 or 2 minutes) and encoded (about 15 to 20 minutes).