Milt wrote:
>My first attempt to back up a movie with dvd shrink, >>


I'm not sure exactly what processes you are using. Did you use the same 
movie in both cases? Encryptions can vary.

Normally, one would first decrypt the movie with DVD Decrypt. Then one 
would shrink the result with DVD Shrink.  Two entirely separate 
stages.  Are you perhaps trying to decrypt and shrink in the one process, 
using only DVD shrink?  This might work with some DVD's, but usually not 
very well if at all.

As far as I know, DVD shrink does not know or care whether there is a 
burner connnected or not during the Shrink stage. It is purely a software 
process working off the Temp file used to store the decrypted video.

If I am wrong and you are in fact decrypting first with DVD Decrypt, what 
happens if you then remove both burners, and try to shrink a 
previously-decrypted movie, without proceeding to the burning stage?

If that is still bad, then it must be a software problem and nothing to do 
with your burners. I'd then be thinking about reinstalling both DVD Decrypt 
and DVD Shrink.

Don Penlington


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