Access violation.....in module 'GordianKnot.exe'

[miahallen]

Hello everyone, thins is my first post on Doom9, and I'm still pretty new to all this. I'm a soldier currently in Iraq, but I've been a computer geek for years, and I've just recently decided to start building a digital library of movies for my upcoming HTPC back home. I've been doing a lot of reading, and I've been able to work my way throguh most of my own problems by myself.

I'm using an IBM Thinkpad R40: 2.0GHz Celeron with 640MB RAM, an ATI Radeon Mobility (16MB), and a 60GB HDD. It's running WIN XP Home SP2 with all the current updates.

I've been doing quite a bit of encoding successfully with Gordian Knot's latest rip/codec packs listed on the doom9's homepage (0.33.1 and 1.9 respectivly). I'm using the OGM container, in order to give me chapters and subtitle options (although I've been unsuccessful with the later, so far...I've got more reading to do there). otherwise I've stuck to the newbies "guides" from the website. I haven't changed anything to do with the Direct Show filter, so it should be at default settings.I've already ripped all 49 episodes of "The Family Guy". I also ripped 5 full length movies with great success.

Well, to the problem. My most recent attempt is with the movie "Traffic", and when I try to start the compressibility check I get the following error:

Access violation at address 004059A6 in module
'GordianKnot.exe'. Write of address 00130050. "OK"

Then I get the MS "error report" window, and GordianKnot has to shut down. If I try to reopen it, I get a dialouge window that says "confirm?" with a "yes" or "no" option. It doesn't tell me what I'm confiming. Then when I try to re-open my .d2v file, it tells me to add the dgdecode.dll to the avisynth plugins folder.

So, instead of trying to do another compressability check, I just tried going straight to encoding. This time I got a sequence of errors similar to the one above:

Access violation at address 004059A6 in module
'GordianKnot.exe'. Write of address 001300B4. "OK"

Access violation at address 77333520.
Read of address 77333520. "OK"

Access violation at address 72657470.
Read of address 72657470. "OK"

Access violation at address 0000039A.
Read of address 0000039A. "OK"

I've already tried uninstalling the entire rip/codec packs, including removal of the registry entries using "regcleaner" twice...with no change. Any ideas, has anyone experienced this problem? Any help is appriceated.

[miahallen]

OK so I see the "sticky" above, and saw a few other users having this problem, but I'm behind a websense firewall (Army provided internet) and cannot download the update, would somebody e-mail it to me as an attachment? Either GK 0.33.2 or, I saw on the mirror 0.34.8 or something, whichever is best...I suppose the newer version. I'd appreciate it.

miah.allen@us.army.mil

[niamh]

I will mail you 0.34.8, but it probably might not fix your problem.(it's only the .exe, so do not uninstall the whole pack, though hitting delete registry keys in the options tab before you replace GK itself is always a good idea)
-Does GK crash only for that particular movie?
-If yes, have you tried to simply re-decrypt the vobs?

If it isn't movie - specific, I'm sure len0x will find a way to help.

As for the subtitles issue, if you create a thread in the subtitles forum stating exactly what you tried to do, and what you want to achieve, I'll probably be able to help you there :)

[miahallen]

OK, I recieved 0.34.8 (thanks!), deleted the registry key, installed it, and rebooted. But I'm still getting the same problem. (I already tried re-ripping the vobs) I haven't tried another movie since I ran into the problem, and I'll do that tonight. But I did notice something unique about this movie: when I'm creating my dv2 file with dgindex, it's saying the content is interlaced, instead of progressive...this is the first movie I'm tried like this. Could that be causing the problem, is there a way to fix it...and is it possible it really is interlaced???

I'm not too worried about the subtitles just yet, I'll get to that later. :)

Thanks for the help!:confused:

[jggimi]

Can it be interlaced? Sure, but unless the source was video camera, it probably isn't. What you see being reported is from the MPEG-2 metadata. See www.doom9.org/ivtc-tut.htm for more information on how to determine if the data is interlaced or Telecined, and what to do if its the latter.

Of course, this doesn't have anything to do with your application failure.

[len0x]

Is it just one movie? All others are still OK?
You check this:
- save AVS from GK without adding it to the job list (or doing comp test)
- open it manually in VDubMod
- see if you can run encoding after settings some codec settings (1 or two passes) via Save AVI (F7)

[miahallen]

Well, I ripped "Blue Collar Comedy Tour" last night, and it is encoding right now. However, the compressability check for it still didn't work....it went throught the whole check, then I got a dialouge box saying it couldn't load the results because it couldn't find the log file??? But, it seems to be encoding fine right now.

When the BCCT comp check finished, I tried again with Traffic, and recieved the same errors. So I'm thinking it's the movie. I'll try what your suggesting as soon after this encode (it'll be a few hours before it's complete), thanks lenOx.

[miahallen]

My friend tried it on his computer, he's running the exact same software setup I listed above, plus GK 0.34.8 beta. But he has an Athlon 64 3400+ with a GIG of RAM. He got the same results with a comp check, but when he went to encode it, it didn't give im any problems. It's on the second pass right now.

I'm not familiar with the procedure you mentioned lenOx, but I wan to learn, is there a good guide to teach a newbie how to dig into the individual programs a little deeper?

Thanks!

[len0x]

So comp test still doesn't work? Are you using any special (or non-english) charaters in the names of you input/output files?

About manual procedure - there is something more to check for cmp test: after you get this access violation error go to GK folder and check out the contents of LastCompCheck.avs. Please post it here for a start.

P.S. After GK crashes registry seem to be broken so reset it by going to the option tab and pressing "delete registry keys". Then restart GK.

Also if its just this movie you can try AutoGK on it and see how that works out.