megui crashes in vista

[akby]

its irritating

run as administrator

avisynth script creator --> 123.d2v---> reads fine
avisynth script creator --> 123.avi ---> crash
avisynth script creator --> 123.mkv ---> crash
i tried the same vob file i made the d2v with. it crashed then too

i select the file to open and it crashes

i m assuming there is some problem with directshow source

can someone help me out

megui is updated
avisynth 2.5.7

[check]

try creating a 'wrapper' avs for files you load, ie create an avs directshowsource("file"), and then load that. An ugly kludge to be sure, but it will hopefully work.

[akby]

you mean make an avisynth script then load it again in avisynth script creator?

that didnt work either though

i have an old script that was created on xp
when i load that into megui's input on the main screen, it crashes again

[lpvtech]

It should be a problem with MediaInfo.dll and is not DirectShowSource. It crashes in Vista. Every program that utilizes it crashes. The d2v doesn't crash because it does not use MediaInfo.dll. MeGUI gets the info about any file (other than d2v which already has the info) from MediaInfo.dll

Info in the sense Resolution, Playtime, no. of frames, frame rate, aspect ratio etc..

[akby]

any suggestions?
i really dont want to move away from megui

[Kurtnoise]

Originally Posted by lpvtech

It should be a problem with MediaInfo.dll and is not DirectShowSource. It crashes in Vista. Every program that utilizes it crashes.

Are you sure about that ? I'm testing Yamb on Vista which uses this lib and it works perfectly...So, the problem is outwhere.

[ChronoCross]

any crash message?

[lpvtech]

Well. I don't use Vista, so I'm sorry I cannot provide you with the exact solution.. But that is what I heard from my friends [which I had seen myself] and I read about it in someother places too. But try this:
Create a simple AVS with DirectShow Source and no other filter,
Sample:

DirectShowSource("D:\Movies\Sample.avi")

Then open it MediaPlayer. If it plays it will confirm that there is no problem with DirectShowSource.

It'll confirm the problem.

Out Of Topic:
And Kurtnoise13, I really really was looking forward to thank you for your excellent tools YAMB and BeLight. They are simply awsome and I can't thank you enough. And I would suggest that you could consider them to be OpenSourced. It will help its rapid improvement, though you already programmed it to be perfect

[akby]

"Script error: ther is no function named "DirectShowSource"

when opening and avs in media player classic, windows media player

i reinstalled avisynth but nada

any crash message?

no there isnt. theres just a window that comes up that says "megui has stopped working" and then it closes

[lpvtech]

Originally Posted by akby

"Script error: ther is no function named "DirectShowSource"

Now that's interesting... Are you sure that the DirectShowSource.dll file is in the Avisynth plugins directory..
Try loading it through the LoadPlugin statement..
Try if this works..

Sample..

LoadPlugin("C:\Avisynth\DirectShowsource.dll")
DirectShowSource("D:\Sample.avi")

Since you say that there is no problem with MPEG2Source function [used with d2v], this should mostly fix your problem.. Or perhaps you don't have the DirectShowSource DLL in the plgins directory..

And I would very much suggest you to change the title to something like 'DirectShowSource problem in Vista', since this actually has nothing to do with meGUI [only it uses AviSynth].

[akby]

Sample..
Code:

LoadPlugin("C:\Avisynth\DirectShowsource.dll")
DirectShowSource("D:\Sample.avi")

this worked it on media player classic
but megui still crashes

ohh and incidentally
the avs without the load plugin statement runs fine on nero recode. whats even more annoying is that recode never picked up the avs files before, least not on XP

[lpvtech]

Well. Atleast we know one thing.. The problem is definetely not with the DirectShowSource or AviSynth..

[fight2win]

megui is not updating in vista, all it tries to download, it says path is invalid, even i did not install in program files, pls help...

[akby]

i formatted and reinstalled vista

dont have the problem of megui crashing
i have no idea why but it works fine now

another problem thats come up is this log error

"Log for job job2-2

avis [error]: unsupported input format (YUY2)
x264 [error]: could not open input file 'D:\ty\1\1.avs'"

the file is an avi file with a divx5 codec
the avisynth works fine in media player classic

[foxyshadis]

That just means you have to add a ConvertToYV12() at the end of your script. MeGUI will normally ask you to do this in the scriptcreator if the script is returning YUY2.

[akby]

it used to ask that before

maybe the new version skips on that

[uncertainty]

I recently built a new fileserver and decided to use my Vista license for it as its still too beta for my HTPC. I did a clean Vista install then added megui and have not had any crashes as others have reported here.

[akby]

i did a clean install as well
working just fine now

just hope they dont crop up again

[kikker]

Hmm..I have the same problem both with MeGUI and Xvid4PSP, both of which I really wanted to learn. I don't know if I want reformat though...

I wonder what the problem could be where both apps just shut down for no apparent reason...

[ChronoCross]

Originally Posted by kikker

Hmm..I have the same problem both with MeGUI and Xvid4PSP, both of which I really wanted to learn. I don't know if I want reformat though...

I wonder what the problem could be where both apps just shut down for no apparent reason...

fresh install or upgrade? I've seen alot of conflicting dll problems that crop up with upgrades.