Shrink worked fine, now crashes pc

[anonymez]

also turn both preview windows off before you do the transcode. i had a PC with geforce 5200, BSODs almost everytime the decoder tried utilizing dxva. process of elimiation.

[Chewy]

i had a PC with geforce 5200

No way! Not you.

[anonymez]

lol alas, it is true, i had a 5200 at one point. i applied every windows/registry hack in the book in a bid to improve performance, and some not in the book. after about a year or so dxva didn't work, so i ended up oc'ing it till it fried

i have no use for dxva anymore though, ffdshow forces all decoders into software mode

[Chewy]

I am not very impressed with my gf 5500 either, but it was cheap.

[rabidravix]

i am having the exact same problem. when i start shrink somewhere about halfway through the PC does a hard restart. I've burned about the same number of DVDs and just started having problems. The difference is our set ups are completely different. I'm using a Emachine, AMD 64 bit Athlon, 256MB video, 1gig ram and 50 gig available. I always turn the video preview off. I am wondering if M$'s latest "security" update has something to do with this. The crashes started about the same time as the last update. Hummm......

Also as a side note, the latest version of Shrink (3.2 I think) has a bug and the submenus flash on and off super fast. I have to use 3.1. I tried DLing it again but the same results. Ideas?

[Chewy]

if you are doing a lengthy transcode then I would suspect heat and/or dirt as the culprit. Those amd's run pretty cool so you might have other issues with that computer. Shrink's been out so long and tested I would look elsewhere for the problem.

[Steve83]

Mine is similar, but not as catastrophic. I get errors during Analysis that force Shrink to close, but I can restart it & pick up the analysis right where it stopped, and it'll continue into Encoding. But before it starts burning, it always errors out. This seemed to happen suddenly, and I don't remember adding any new software or hardware that might have triggered it. I've overinstalled Shrink (didn't help), then uninstalled, ran Registry Mechanic, ran NAV, ran the Symantec online scanner, ran SpyBot, rebooted a few times, & reinstalled Shrink from a fresh download, but it hasn't helped. This is all on my HP 325c w/1G RAM, NEC 3550, & Lite-On SHM-165H6S. It doesn't matter which drive I use to rip or burn - same errors.



I also get one that says something like "the parameter is incorrect" with no further explanation.