Useless

[flexibilis]

I must say that I find AnyDVD completely useless. There was only 1 DVD that I could copy with AnyDVD, which Shrink DVD had problems with. This was the reason I bought AnyDVD. But since then, there was NOTa single DVD that AnyDVD could handle which also Shrink DVD wasn't able to.
Usually a read error is reported at approx. 30%, and when clicking Yes to ignore read errors, it's always the end of the story: the transfer rate drops to 0.0 and that's it. However, the original DVDs play perfectly fine in both the PC and a standalone player. And AnyDVD reports no problems whatsoever, when browsing the DVD at the beginning.
So I'd find these frequent updates nice, if they were of any help, but they proved to be just annoying to me.
Any comment?

[Franchise]

Are you using AnyDVD as a ripper? If you use AnyDVD in conjunction with Shrink, you shouldn't have many problems at all.

[Kensw]

I am so surprised to hear you have problems. I use AnyDVD with Clone DVD and that combination makes backup copies of EVERYTHING. I have recommended the program to so many poeple I have lost count and everyone comes back with rave reviews.

[DrinkLyeAndDie]

Well, it's unfortunate that you have had such a bad experience with the software but considering how many other people don't have problems this leads me to think this may be a problem related to your computer [hardware and more specifically the DVD drive] and not the software. Without more info no one can be sure but I've made backups of all my DVDs for a number of years w/o problems using AnyDVD.

[vinman]

I use any dvd with 3 different burning programs and it hasent failed me yet
its one of the best investments I ever made

[aabbccdd]

clonedvd 2 + anydvd is your best bet not dvd shrink. dvd shrink has no support being it hasn't updated in years and will have problems doing the newer movies even with anydvd running in the background.

make sure your drive/burner has the latest firmware,

[aabbccdd]

check here

http://forum.rpc1.org/dl_all.php

[James]

Originally Posted by flexibilis

I must say that I find AnyDVD completely useless. There was only 1 DVD that I could copy with AnyDVD, which Shrink DVD had problems with. This was the reason I bought AnyDVD. But since then, there was NOTa single DVD that AnyDVD could handle which also Shrink DVD wasn't able to.
Usually a read error is reported at approx. 30%, and when clicking Yes to ignore read errors, it's always the end of the story: the transfer rate drops to 0.0 and that's it. However, the original DVDs play perfectly fine in both the PC and a standalone player. And AnyDVD reports no problems whatsoever, when browsing the DVD at the beginning.
So I'd find these frequent updates nice, if they were of any help, but they proved to be just annoying to me.
Any comment?

It looks like AnyDVD is not working correctly on your machine. If shrink reports read errors AnyDVD was unable to do its job.
You can try to run AnyDVD in "Safe Mode" (Settings -> Program settings).
You sould use the Microsoft IDE/SATA drivers, not some fancy motherboard drivers which often cause a lot of weird problems.

[trussme]

Originally Posted by James

It looks like AnyDVD is not working correctly on your machine. If shrink reports read errors AnyDVD was unable to do its job.
You can try to run AnyDVD in "Safe Mode" (Settings -> Program settings).
You sould use the Microsoft IDE/SATA drivers, not some fancy motherboard drivers which often cause a lot of weird problems.

I have never-ever had any problems using ANY DVD (with the latest upgrades)with DVD Shrink 3.2 ...

[IcePhoenix]

i have never encountered a dvd i couldn't rip with anydvd installed... there have been some slow/buggy rips but it all went well after the next update

i used LightningUK's DVDDecrypter before he was put out of business, along with DVD Shrink. But AnyDVD and CloneDVD seemed to handle it all much faster so i bought it and it havent let me down so far