backups now taking forever??

[Philip James Gentile]

Why don't you download DVD 43? It takes almost no time at all. DVD Decryptor is good freeware, but it has always taken a long time whenvever I have used it. The tougher the ecrtyptions and copyright protections, the longer DVD DEcryptor takes. Some of the new Sony Arccos protection stuff is pretty awful. The lates versions of DVD 43 and DVD Shrink seem to work pretty good. I don't like Nero very much, so I broke down and bought Roxio and IT WORKS REAL GOOD! You can buy Any DVD and Clone DVD 2 or VOBblanker if you don't have the patience to wait for freeware to come up with decryption updates. It's up to you. Good luck.

Phil

P. S. DVD 43 is free and it works much better than DVD Decryptor.

[Philip James Gentile]

I just saw Warlocks post right after I posted my last post! I defragment both of my hard drives regularly, and DVD Decryptor still takes a long time.

Phil

[Warlock]

It still shouldnt take 1-2 hrs to do a backup.

[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???