Sager 5793 DVD-RW Troubleshooting

First off, it's an Optiarc DVD RW AD-7530B so if any of you have that drive, maybe you can help.

I've noticed when ripping my DVD collection to my 1TB NAS drive to stream them to my PS3. Here's the thing; when the disk in the drive is being used the computer lags horrendously. By lag, I mean the following:

• The screen stutters badly as if in Safe Mode with no video drivers (think of the 'repeating' when you win a game of Solitaire in Windows.
• The audio stutters badly; just clicking the slider for the Windows Sound in XP (ding.wav) causes a echo that last 10-15 seconds.

I've tried working on doing the same thing in Windows Safe Mode, and it still happens.

My control is the program DVD Shrink; when I encode an .iso file, it's only encoding at a rate of 1,800 KB/s. See the screenshot here or this picture:


Other then that, I'm not sure how else to diagnose it. Any ideas would be great.

Thanks,
Boogieman117

 

Oh, and if what I said made absolutely NO sense, let me know; i'll record a video of it so that I can be more clear.

 

you can do a benchmark on your drive.

if you have Nero, use Nero CD-DVD Speed

as for DVDShrink encoding, that has nothing to do with the speed of the drive actually...

DVDShrink is an old single threaded application that takes about that long normally for most current systems to rip and shrink a DVD.

post the benchmark when you do it.

also, when you say your system is when its in the drive....

do you mean while the optical drive is idle? or when you are ripping/encoding a DVD?

if you are encoding a DVD, then thats normal since the program will use up the CPU (for the encoding), as well as the HDD for caching and temp usage.

 

I'll work on the Nero installation (I can't remember the last time I've burned something with Nero so I might have uninstalled it) and run the diagnostic.

What I mean by 'in the drive' is simply when the disk is being read by Windows/an application. It happens for any ODD media (bought/burned CDs/DVDs) when it's in use. For example, I cannot work on the computer while ripping a CD (since it actively uses the drive).

Do you recommend a multi-core program that works the same as DVDShrink?

 

NeroVision does the same thing and is more efficient.

I do not rip that many DVDs anymore, but I still use DVDShrink if I can.

as for the optical drive slowing your system down while being in use.... which OS are you using... because an optical drive can sometimes (in XP from my experience... maybe in Vista too)

Here is my old post about it:
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Sounds like your IDE channels might have dropped to PIO mode, instead of DMA. (This is a "feature" in WinXP.)

Go into device manager and look at the Primary and Secondary IDE channels. Under the advanced tab, see what mode you're in. If it says PIO you'll need to uninstall the drives and let Windows find them again (resetting it to DMA if available won't do it).

If WinXP has trouble reading a disc more than a couple times it permanently lowers the mode to PIO. Uninstalling and reinstalling the drives is the only way to get a fresh start. Once the drives have been re-detected, you may have to go back and manually set the "DMA if available" option.

Hope this helps,
-Gophn

 

Here's the info I got:

And the Nero information:


I'll have to try and 'find' NeroVision since it didn't seem to install with the typical installation. I'll also try and work on the idea of switching the IDE channels as my secondary isn't sent to DMA and report back.