Cuttermaran and .NET woes

[mg262]

I've found for some time that many .NET (version 1) applications are unstable on my PC... but it's just come to a head now when I find that I can't even run Cuttermaran (I get an error: "20; 20 is not a valid value for Int32"; searching for the error doesn't turn up anything useful). I've tried uninstalling everything that uses .NET and reinstalling it and then Cuttermaran, but the error persists.

Since pretty much anything I try to run that uses .NET is unstable, often in a reproducible fashion (e.g. AVSEdit always crashes if I try and set an external preview application), I think the problem must be there... but the error messages vary across applications and searching for them hasn't proved useful. Does anyone have any ideas? I would be very grateful for any help!

Info...

Pentium 4/2400, not hyperthreaded
Windows XP service Pack 1
.NET 1.1
Cuttermaran 1.66 (latest version)

(Edit: Full error text here: http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/mg262/posts/dotneterror_cuttermaran.txt)

[unskinnyboy]

I suggest you try ChopperXP instead of Cuttermaran which doesn't need .NET.

[mg262]

Thanks for the thought... but I stopped using that because it also crashed quite often. (Most programs on my PC are perfectly stable... it's just .NET applications and a couple of others, including Chopper XP.)

[Shinigami-Sama]

time to format?
maybe get SP2? ( though I don't blame you for not using it )

[unskinnyboy]

Thanks for the thought... but I stopped using that because it also crashed quite often. (Most programs on my PC are perfectly stable... it's just .NET applications and a couple of others, including Chopper XP.)
OK then, what about MPEG2Cut (http://files.digital-digest.com/downloads/files/encode/MPEG2Cut-1.15.rar)? Tried that?

Also, a format might not be a bad idea actually.

[stax76]

Format is something I never do unless I buy new hardware, even system recovery should very rarely be needed. At least I would try before on another system (e.g. using VMWare) if the problem also exists.

[dimzon]

I've found for some time that many .NET (version 1) applications are unstable on my PC... but it's just come to a head now when I find that I can't even run Cuttermaran (I get an error: "20; 20 is not a valid value for Int32"; searching for the error doesn't turn up anything useful).
Seems like your regional setting && formats caused this error. Some stupid programmers sometimes writes code wich works only on en-US locale.
Try to switch to default en-US locale in Control Panel -> Regional && Language Settings and reset all formats by default

[mg262]

dimzon,

It was an excellent suggestion but alas it didn't work -- Cuttermaran still crashes on start up and AVSEdit can reliably be induced to crash by train to said the external preview application.

stax,

I will check things on another system when I have the opportunity, but it's pretty clear that the two problems listed above don't happen on the majority of systems...

Reformatting is something I've tried very hard to avoid for some time, but I'm pretty much running out of options. I will also leave the new system on US settings to avoid the problems mentioned above...

[BigDid]

@mg262
I'm happy with mpg2cut (link given by unskinnyboy) or here for the last beta/alpha: http://www.geocities.com/rocketjet4/
although I use it mainly for cutting the extra length at the end of mpeg2 stream, I also could cut out commercials and merge the remaining stream but don't ask me about compliant(cy) or audio de-synchro, still learning that stuff :(

It is GNU and free and the author is updating regularly, beta is from 2006/01/17 alpha is 01/31 :)

Did

[zilog jones]

I will also leave the new system on US settings to avoid the problems mentioned above...
I've never experienced such problems with any .NET programs I've used (including Cuttermaran and AVSEdit), and my system locale is on Japanese to make things even worse! I get yen signs instead of backslashes, but no crashing .NET software :D

This sounds like quite a weird issue - you sure Windows is up-to-date (though I don't really know how you can achieve that without installing SP2), and you've got no viruses or malware?

[mg262]

Pretty sure... I've run checks up-to-date both for adware (yesterday) and viruses (since the AVSEdit problem occurred). Perhaps I should repeat the virus check.

I have also used msconfig to disable anything non-essential, which should have caught most problems of this type -- and in fact under the current configuration no non-Microsoft services are loaded and no processes are executed on startup.

Perhaps I should also give in and try Service Pack 2...

[stax76]

I've decided to stop develop AVSEdit as I prefer using StaxRip and the code is very amateurish and outdated. The culprit code is this:


Dim f As New OpenFileDialog
f.Filter = g.GetResource("Program Files") + " (*.exe)|*.exe|" + g.GetResource("All Files") + " (*.*)|*.*"
f.FileName = g.AppSettings.ExternalPreview 'here is the crash likely
f.ShowDialog()
g.AppSettings.ExternalPreview = f.FileName


It would probably work with this changes:


Using f As New OpenFileDialog
f.Filter = g.GetResource("Program Files") + " (*.exe)|*.exe|" + g.GetResource("All Files") + " (*.*)|*.*"

If File.Exists(g.AppSettings.ExternalPreview) Then
f.FileName = g.AppSettings.ExternalPreview
End If

If f.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then
g.AppSettings.ExternalPreview = f.FileName
End If
End Using

[BigDid]

I've decided to stop develop AVSEdit ...

To Dolemite and all the others.
Well, I really like using avsedit, thanks for the great job. As an avisynth noob, I really appreciate to have access to the filters params +and+ help on these params.

I actually use rev 1.1.1.2, any newer rev improved?

Did

[mg262]

stax,

Thank you for the suggestion... but I do seem to have a general instability with .NET programs, including fairly frequent crashes with AVSEdit (which don't stop it from being absolutely invaluable, especially for the preview feature) so I think I probably need to address the problem at the root by reinstalling. Programs and OS are on a separate drive to all my data, so it's not as painful as it otherwise might be...