Out of Memory Error

[SBisquit]

Update on the post I just entered above. I found a work around for this particular DVD problem.
I used DVDFab HD Decrypter 4 (the free version) to read the DVD to my hard drive using the
Main Movie mode (instead of Full Disc). The Spit option is not available in the free version
(I'd need to upgrade to the Platinum version). But in the Main Movie option there seem to
be two separate 4.2GB components with the same movie contents, both with the same
audio track (Bengali) and English subpicture. I used DVDfab to copy just one of these
and then could run DvdShrink to create an ISO file which could be burned on a DVD-R.
DvdShrink did not crash in this case and the resulting ISO file has the full movie
(without any compression).

In this case the VIDEO_TS folder DVDFab made contained just 5 VTS_....VOB files,
while in the Full Disk case the folder contains 18 VOB files. In addition the DVD
has a PDF file with a press release which can be accessed from the DVD on
computer (so maybe this could have confused DvdShrink?). I wish there were
a good on-line source to explain the overall structure of DVDs so I could understand
this a bit better. Or could I have cherry picked the set of 5 VOBs from the Full Disk
folder that DvdFAB created and written them to a DVD-R without the shrink step?


I wonder if the intermediate DvdShrink step was even needed in this case
-- could I have written the content of the folder created by DVDFab directly to
the DVD-ROM somehow ?

[felinis]

This happend to me too backing up "Catch-22".

It is definitely a RAM memory leak. I tried the backup four times. On the third and fourth times I used the Task Manager to monitor memory usage. On the third attempt I definitely saw memory usage slowly ramp up until there was none left.

On the fourth try the backup succeeded. I suggest that you either just keep trying, or pre-extract the DVD into an .ISO file and Shrink that instead.

[Chetwood]

He can also rip the files to IFOs/VOBs first and shrink those. No need to go for ISO with this step, escpecially as the free version of DVDFab does not output to ISO (IIRC).

[8bit]

Removing the DVD Shrink folder in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\ and restarting the DVD Shrink program fixed this for me. I think it was an issue with the disc analysis: I didn't let mine complete properly and so when I tried to re-open the disc DVD Shrink was referring to corrupted temporary files.

[Chetwood]

I seriously doubt it but mabye the original poster tries it and lets us know.

[peterpan]

Try to run dvdshrink as administrator, that help me, on a window 7 machine.
sorry if my english is bad

[henry_b]

After using DVDShrink numerous times without any memory problems, I ran into the Out of Memory issue on my new gaming PC.
My usual way of making backups is first to backup the whole dvd without compression to hdd as vob-files, and then to make a compressed ISO-file afterwards.
Yesterday I was making a backup as above, but this time no compression was needed due to the complete size of the dvd.
But now I ran into the out of memory error, and each time I tried I noticed that the buffer was 1.5 - 1.6 GB while doing approx 150 MB/s.
After trying out a couple of different settings - without luck - I simply tried to make the backup directly from the dvd, and this time the backup ran ok. This time the buffer only ran up to approx 100 MB while backing up at 5-7.5 MB/s (or the max speed of the dvd drive).
However, making a backup of a different DVD as first making uncompressed vob-files and then compressing to an ISO-file did not give the out of memory issue, but on this occasion the backup was compressed to 76%. And this puzzles me a bit. Because, then what is it? Buffer overflow or buffer underrun?

Anyway, if I run into this issue again, I know just to make the backup directly from the dvd.

[Chetwood]

Dunno what it is but apparently dvdshrink did not anticipate people ripping at these speeds where DVD Shrink has to buffer that much.