megui crashes in vista

[asarian]

Hey now, this is encouraging! :) I've reinstalled MeGUI to something other than "C:\Program Files\" (to C:\megui); and lo and behold, it installs and updates (!) properly! Haven't done all tests yet, but things are looking up. :)

EDIT: It couldn't be something as trivial as having spaces in a path name (= improperly quoted paths, internally), like in "Program Files", could it??

[Kurtnoise]

I read it carefully, but why would I need step 1? The vc-1 stream is already inside an m2ts file (bluray).
in this case, speak about m2ts...not about vc-1. I thought it was the raw stream.

[Kurtnoise]

Hey now, this is encouraging! :) I've reinstalled MeGUI to something other than "C:\Program Files\" (to C:\megui); and lo and behold, it installs and updates (!) properly! Haven't done all tests yet, but things are looking up. :)

EDIT: It couldn't be something as trivial as having spaces in a path name (= improperly quoted paths, internally), like in "Program Files", could it??
on vista, writing on Program Files folder requires some admin privileges. By default, it's off...

[mckiejohn]

Could someone tell me how to uninstall Groove on its own. Or will I need to uninstall the whole Office package?

[dwm4444]

mckiejohn,

You can uninstall Groove independently of Office. In Vista, open Control Panel; click "Programs and Features", click on Microsoft Office, then click "Change" on the menu bar above. A pop-up will popup with "Add or Remove Features" selected. Click "Continue". Click the down-arrow on the "Microsoft Office Groove" box and choose "Not available" then click next.

Not sure what happens after this as I've already uninstalled it but as I remember it's pretty obvious.

[mckiejohn]

Thanks for that, but I ended up removing the whole package, and have reverted back to Office 2003 (a better program if you ask me). The good think is meGUI now works. And it only took me six months to make it work... Great fun!

[shuffle2]

hey i thought i'd jump on this thread instead of creating another...for me, on vista x64 ultimate with megui stable or dev (up to date), whenever i try to load a video into the avisynth script creator, megui crashes. windows output is this, although stackhash doesn't allude to much:
Problemereignisname: APPCRASH
Anwendungsname: MeGUI.exe
Anwendungsversion: 0.3.0.1010
Anwendungszeitstempel: 485fafa6
Fehlermodulname: StackHash_2a66
Fehlermodulversion: 6.0.6001.18000
Fehlermodulzeitstempel: 4791a783
Ausnahmecode: c0000374
Ausnahmeoffset: 000aada3
Betriebsystemversion: 6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
Gebietsschema-ID: 1033
Zusatzinformation 1: 2a66
Zusatzinformation 2: 6451a58300378d3769e578402fe758f6
Zusatzinformation 3: 2f9a
Zusatzinformation 4: fc6bfc61c5f8ff9626f2071c417f756f
(same sort of thing with the stable build)

[Kurtnoise]

1) did you have installed the last .net Framework ?

2) did you have installed Avisynth ?

[shuffle2]

I have avisynth 2.5.7 installed (latest stable)
and I have a range of .NET installed (I have VS2008 installed and up to date)...so i think that covers from 2.0 to 3.5

[Sharktooth]

update to 0.3.0.1013 and check again.
ensure to set the auto-update server option to "development" (Options->Settings->Extra Config->Configure Servers).

[shuffle2]

changed the server to developement, updated and restarted. still happens.
side note: this has happened for as long as i've tried to use megui. :'(

[Sharktooth]

try with a clean installation.
also, throw the video in graphstudio or graphedit and post a screenshot.

[shuffle2]

try with a clean installation.

have done; no difference
also, throw the video in graphstudio or graphedit and post a screenshot.
this happens on any video i try and open....I have over 1TB of video. anyways, here's the most recent thing i wanted to use megui for: http://shawnh.arcynic.net/images/megui.png

[gurubhai]

try a different build of avisynth

[shuffle2]

well wtf. tried avisynth 2.5.5 and it works. woot. could have sworn i tried that months ago, but whatever. now i can finally see if i like megui better than automkv ;p
thanks to all

[Weirdo]

This is driving me crazy, MeGUI crashes ("DEP has closed MeGUI" etc.) while loading the AVS script in Vista 32bit. Tried AVS 2.5.5 and 2.5.7, removed Groove, NET framework 3.5 installed, re-installed MeGUI 0.3.0.1015 (and run as admin), turned off preview in MeGUI...., installed MeGUI and AVS in folder E: instead of C:/Program Files... nothing.

[check]

DEP causing crashes? Disable DEP.

[Weirdo]

I don't know if it's a DEP issue. I disabled it completely (following this (http://www.vistax64.com/tutorials/120778-dep-enable-disable.html)) and at the same point I now get:

http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/5386/errorrm5.th.jpg (http://img139.imageshack.us/my.php?image=errorrm5.jpg)

[check]

Can you open this AVS script in a media player successfully? What is the AVS script?

[Weirdo]

The script plays ok in Media Player Classic (the Nero Resize filter starts up), the text is:

LoadPlugin("D:\DGDecode.dll")
DGDecode_MPEG2Source("E:\euro1.d2v",cpu=0)

Also tried without LoadPlugin, and putting the dll into the AVS plugins folder, but same thing happens.
"Euro1.d2v" was created with DGIndex.

[Weirdo]

Thanks for your answers, I seemed to have fixed it. The MeGUI window didn't recognise the script as an AVS file and I had to select "all files" to load it. So, I renamed it from "script.avs" to "script.avs.avs"... and it worked. I also gave DGDecode.dll modify and full control permissions so I'm not quite sure which made the trick.

edit: It doesn't work. The script loads in the initial MeGUI window but it crashes in the Script creator window. (which requires "all files" to open the script)

[Weirdo]

Still nothing. Funny thing is when I first installed it, it worked for a couple of times.
Seems like there are lots of Vista issues...

[Sharktooth]

Are you running megui as an admin?

[Weirdo]

Yes, tried with and without right-click=>"run as admin". The user account also is an admin account. Uninstalled and reinstalled and now 2 new problems. 10-15 items won't update ("invalid path" error if I remember correctly) and while trying to load the script it doesn't crash but I get "cannot render the file, probably codec problem" etc.

[Sharktooth]

ok, uninstall megui and try reinstalling it into c:\megui (do not use weird chars or spaces in the folder name)...
always execute megui.exe as admin....
dont ask me why... but sometimes it works.

[rebkell]

ok, uninstall megui and try reinstalling it into c:\megui (do not use weird chars or spaces in the folder name)...
always execute megui.exe as admin....
dont ask me why... but sometimes it works.

I use to have a similar problem with the On-Air software, for some reason when values got written into the registry, paths with spaces didn't get written in with quotes around them and if you modified the registry and put it back in with quotes around the path it would work, but everytime the program touched the registry the quotes would get wiped out and it was left with a fubared system/registry value.

[Weirdo]

ok, uninstall megui and try reinstalling it into c:\megui (do not use weird chars or spaces in the folder name)...
always execute megui.exe as admin....
dont ask me why... but sometimes it works.

Thanks, I'll try c:\megui but I've already did that on another HD, e:\megui... check my post on the previous page (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1158443#post1158443), I've also put an error screen in the following one.

@rebkell: I've applied a couple of registry cleaners after the various uninstalls.

[rebkell]

Thanks, I'll try c:\megui but I've already did that on another HD, e:\megui... check my post on the previous page (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1158443#post1158443), I've also put an error screen in the following one.

@rebkell: I've applied a couple of registry cleaners after the various uninstalls.

The only reason I brought it up about the registry was because the On-Air software glitch was similar, it would work sometimes when I installed it, but it would never last and I kept finding that the path kept getting corrupted in the registry, probably totally unrelated, just thought I'd mention it. The same software worked just fine on hundreds of similar machines, but it just kept screwing up on mine, probably some kind of Windows internal thing that didn't want to work on my machine, it never did make any sense.

[Sharktooth]

@rebkell: megui uses the registry for reading the avisynth install dir and very few other things. i dont think it's a registry problem.

@Weirdo: when installing to c:\megui or whatever, ensure you run it as an admin and do all the updates.

[Weirdo]

Reinstalled to c:\megui and this is the result of the update:

Trying server: htt_p://mewiki.project357.com/auto/stable/ (changed htt_p to remove link)
Retrieving update file from server...
File downloaded successfully...
Loading update data...
Update data loaded successfully...
Finished parsing update file...
There are 37 files that can be updated.
Updating core. File 1/37.
Updating data. File 2/37.
Updating libs. File 3/37.
Updating avswrapper. File 4/37.
Updating updatecopier. File 5/37.
Updating x264. File 6/37.
Updating mencoder. File 7/37.
Updating dgindex. File 8/37.
Updating mp4box. File 9/37.
Updating avimux_gui. File 10/37.
Updating xvid_encraw. File 11/37.
Updating faac. File 12/37.
Updating mkvmerge. File 13/37.
Updating ffmpeg. File 14/37.
Updating oggenc2. File 15/37.
Updating avc2avi. File 16/37.
Updating yadif. File 17/37.
Updating enc_aacplus. File 18/37.
Updating lame. File 19/37.
Updating encaudxcli. File 20/37.
Updating aften. File 21/37.
Updating convolution3dyv12. File 22/37.
Error: The path to save convolution3dyv12 to is invalid.
Updating undot. File 23/37.
Error: The path to save undot to is invalid.
Updating fluxsmooth. File 24/37.
Error: The path to save fluxsmooth to is invalid.
Updating eedi2. File 25/37.
Error: The path to save eedi2 to is invalid.
Updating decomb. File 26/37.
Error: The path to save decomb to is invalid.
Updating leakkerneldeint. File 27/37.
Error: The path to save leakkerneldeint to is invalid.
Updating tomsmocomp. File 28/37.
Error: The path to save tomsmocomp to is invalid.
Updating tdeint. File 29/37.
Error: The path to save tdeint to is invalid.
Updating tivtc. File 30/37.
Error: The path to save tivtc to is invalid.
Updating dgdecode. File 31/37.
Error: The path to save dgdecode to is invalid.
Updating simpleresize. File 32/37.
Error: The path to save simpleresize to is invalid.
Updating colormatrix. File 33/37.
Error: The path to save colormatrix to is invalid.
Updating nicaudio. File 34/37.
Error: The path to save nicaudio to is invalid.
Updating STx264. File 35/37.
Updating STAudio. File 36/37.
Updating TXviD. File 37/37.
Update completed.
24 files were completed successfully
13 files had problems.


Restarted and it still won't update. Tried to load a script { DGDecode_MPEG2Source("E:\euro1.d2v",cpu=0) } in the script creator and I get "cannot render the file".
The script used to open in mpc (the filter Nero Resize took over) but I uninstalled Nero (for some other reason) and now I get audio only.
The VOB file referenced in the d2v file opens fine in mpc.

[Sharktooth]

ok... then it's the avisynth installation path.
remove avisynth and do a clean install into into c:\avisynth
if it works, we have found an avisynth installer or avisynth bug :)

[Weirdo]

Reinstalled to c:\avisynth and megui now updated fine, but still it crashes when I load the script in the script creator. ("meGUI has stopped working...")
Could this be filter/codec related? The script played fine on mpclassic (before uninstalling Nero, now it doesn't). I have disabled preview for the script creator in meGUI.

[Sharktooth]

you can safely re-enable the preview.
if the script doesnt play in mpc then the problem IS filter/codec related.
the avs have to work, so install the necessary filters/decoders to make it play into MPC or any other directshow media player. usually the haali media splitter and ffdshow combo should do the trick.
btw, what filtype is the source?

[~bT~]

Reinstalled to c:\avisynth and megui now updated fine, but still it crashes when I load the script in the script creator. ("meGUI has stopped working...")
Could this be filter/codec related? The script played fine on mpclassic (before uninstalling Nero, now it doesn't). I have disabled preview for the script creator in meGUI.

clear out your filter folder and only keep the needed ones.

[Weirdo]

After uninstalling Nero I can't get the avs to open in a player. Haali media splitter and Ffdshow are installed (even checked 'Avisynth script serving' during install). The file is a dvd/vob file which opens fine in the player.

[Sharktooth]

then something's wrong with dgindex/dgdecode.
make sure the dgdecode dll (version 1.5.1) is in the avisynth plugin dir.

[Weirdo]

The version of the .dll included in the DGMPGDec Version 1.5.2 archive at the author's site, is 1.5.0.0. It's also the one I get when updating through meGUI. Still crashes, still can't open the script in mpc.

[Sharktooth]

im sorry, this is no longer a megui problem.
try recreating the .d2v with the d2v creator and recreting the avisynth script to.
then see it the avs can be played in mpc. if it does, then everything should be fine.

[Weirdo]

Thanks for looking into this. I've done that several times... Note that even when the script played fine in mpc (I had nero installed and the "Nero resize" filter was in the mpc filter chain) meGUI still crashed.

[Sharktooth]

nero filters are weird. dont count on them....
re-create the dv2 now that megui is fully upfated and working,
also recreate the avs without using weird filters.\
it should have possibly only the source filter.
then see if it works on MPC.... and then on MeGUI.

[Weirdo]

Downloaded v0.3.0.1020 today and it works ok. Nothing else was changed, even the script will now play on mpc with ffdshow.

[cengique]

Hi,

I've been using MeGUI for a long while and doing the updates every time they pop up. It was working yesterday, but today when I run it it causes an exception and does not even start up. I keep getting the Windows 'send error report' dialog.

I downloaded a fresh installer from SF.net, but it resulted in the same behavior. I suspect a Windows or MeGUI update gone bad. My XP is SP3 on a 64-bit Core2Duo machine.

Just wanted to report it. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. I depend on MeGUI for all my transcoding needs.

-Cengiz
---
I have OCD -- Obsessive Compressive Disorder.

[Sharktooth]

have you uninstalled megui before reinstalling?

[cengique]

have you uninstalled megui before reinstalling?

I just did, I downloaded and installed 0.3.1.1006 and same thing happens.

After uninstalling all the tools are gone, so it seems to be in the initialization process of MeGUI. Unfortunately the windows crash dialog only has raw stack dumps and no legible information.

Can I pass any command line options to megui to get some diagnostics?

[Sharktooth]

nope. megui has no commandline options.
try reinstalling the .net framework (2.0 along with SP1).

[cengique]

nope. megui has no commandline options.
try reinstalling the .net framework (2.0 along with SP1).

I uninstalled .net 3.0 and was left with 2.0 SP1. Uninstalled, re-installed MeGUI, but no luck. I also tried yesterday's stable version 0.3.1.1014.

Any other suggestions? Can there be leftover stuff in the registry?

[rica]

With this basic tweak after a fresh installation of Vista 32, MeGui always worked for me. (don't forget NetFramework-i have 3.5)

Please uninstall MeGui, make this tweak and reinstall it back;
you will see autoupdate function is working as well:

From the Start Menu find the "Command Prompt" and right click on it. From the popup
menu select "Run as Administrator". A Command window will start.
Write "regedit"
Regedit popup window will open.
Go to the key
HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/WinLogon.
Now add (from the Edit menu) a new key.
Name this new key "SpecialAccounts".

In HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/WinLogon/SpecialAccounts
create a key named "UserList".

In HKLM/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows NT/CurrentVersion/WinLogon/SpecialAccounts/UserList
create a new DWORD entry ;
Name this entry "Administrator" and
set the value to "1"

exit and boot


You should see this after the tweak:

[Kurtnoise]

what is it exactly ?

[rica]

what is it exactly ?

For permanent admin rights.

[nosnoop]

For my setup with Vista 64 bit Home Premium, MeGUI kept crashing on loading any video or avs file (with no error messages), until I install an earlier version of Avisynth 2.5.6. Now it works well.