megui crashes in vista

[Sharktooth]

for those experiencing crashes, have you Microsoft Groove installed?
If yes, uninstall it and try again.

[Kurtnoise]

For permanent admin rights.
you shouln't need this honestly...

[Warrex]

Hi there!

Had the crashing problems on Vista x64:

http://forum.doom9.org/showpost.php?p=1248401&postcount=3755

Uninstalled Groove as Sharktooth said and the crashes are gone. :)

@Sharktooth/Kurtnoise: Any new ideas how Groove and MeGUI crashes are connected (AviSynthWrapper?)? Any fixes in sight (from your side) without uninstalling Groove?

[Sharktooth]

i have absolutely no idea why it crashes. however it is somewhat related to Groove AND Vista since on XP everything is fine even with groove installed.

[cengique]

i have absolutely no idea why it crashes. however it is somewhat related to Groove AND Vista since on XP everything is fine even with groove installed.

My MeGUI crashes although I am using XP and I don't have Groove installed. As I remember, I installed MS Office 2007 a few days after MeGUI started crashing, and Groove is not one of the installed components.

[cengique]

I just deleted all registry entries related to MeGUI after uninstalling it, but no help. It's a witch hunt if I cannot see error messages. I guess I will have to learn to compile the source. So no megui for me for a while... :(

[Sharktooth]

a bit more details about the crash would be helpfull

[cengique]

a bit more details about the crash would be helpfull

Thanks for asking, Sharktooth. Unfortunately, there's not much to report other than what I wrote above about my system (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1248684#post1248684).

Basically, I click on MeGUI and I get 'MeGUI has encountered a problem and it needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience' window. It wants to send an error report about it. The Error Signature says:

AppName: megui.exe AppVer: 0.3.1.1014 AppStamp:4999683d
ModName: kernel32.dll ModVer: 5.1.2600.5512 ModStamp:4802a12c
fDebug: 0 Offset: 00012aeb

It lets me view the contents of the error report, but I cannot save or copy its contents. There is a list of modules involved, such as: MeGUI, ntdll, mscoree, kernel3, advapi3, rpctr4, etc up to 23 modules. I am not sure if you would be interested in the stack dump because there is no symbol information. I can try to debug it further if there's a procedure that I can follow. It would be great if you could add debug messages during MeGUI's initialization process that I could follow from the command window.

[Sharktooth]

if you use Norton AV... dump it.
also, try reinstalling the .net framework 2.0 and the SP1 update then reinstall megui from scratch.

[cengique]

if you use Norton AV... dump it.
also, try reinstalling the .net framework 2.0 and the SP1 update then reinstall megui from scratch.

It worked when I reinstalled .net 2.0 + SP1! Thanks a lot! Last time I tried it didn't let me uninstall .net completely for some reason. But this time I wiped it and reinstalled from scratch.

I was also suspecting the two windows updates that happened on the night MeGUI stopped working: Update Rollup for ActiveX Killbits for Windows XP (KB960715). I couldn't test this, though. MeGUI is already working :)

Thanks again!

[cengique]

It would also be nice if MEGUI saved the custom encoding and avisynth profiles in the user directory rather than in the global installation location. It would help idiots like me who forget to backup their MeGUI profiles before uninstalling it. :)

[Sharktooth]

please post your requests to the megui project feature requests tracker on sourceforge.

[cengique]

please post your requests to the megui project feature requests tracker on sourceforge.

sure, will do!