Error: "The filter graph manager won't talk to me"

[DDogg]

Folks, I am ernestly asking for some help with two errors that have cropped up on my main machine. The may or may not be related and could not be resolved with a system restore.

1> I get "Error: "DirectSHowSource:The filter graph manager won't talk to me" when attempting to open an mpg file that >plays just fine< in WMP 6.4. MPC just vanishes without an error report when I try this script in it. I asked about this error before and got no replies. I also asked Wilbert and he said he had never seen it before.

2> The other problem is a crash ON exit whenever I play a mpeg2source script using either mpeg2dec or mpeg2dec3 or mpegsource in any version of WMP. As said, the script plays but shows an error report crash on exit. MPC will not even open it and simply gives a crash on open and does not display any video.

3> Now, CCE will only vanish when a previously tested script is dragged in it. This script worked perfectly before and is the standard one with addaudio().

/Edit, of course I rem the addaudio() when trying to directly play in WMP or MPC

[zyrill]

Originally posted by DDogg
1> I get "Error: "DirectSHowSource:The filter graph manager won't talk to me" when attempting to open an mpg file that >plays just fine< in WMP 6.4. MPC just vanishes without an error report when I try this script in it. I asked about this error before and got no replies. I also asked Wilbert and he said he had never seen it before.


I can help you with that one: Try playing back the file you're loading with DirectShowSource in MediaPlayer while opening the script. For example your filename is Movie.m2v (that's a mpeg2-video-only-file) and you use following script: DirectShowSource("Movie.m2v") try opening Movie.m2v in WMP and THEN open your avisynthscript! when your script has loaded you can shutdown WMP. worked with me, pls tell me if you find another workaround since i'm still having serious problems loading a file with DirectShowSource (yet it is the only possibility :()

[DDogg]

zyrill, thanks for replying. A workaround should not be required. My laptop and another machine have no problem. This is a known good test mpg with no sound.

I am puzzled by the lack of response. I want to figure this out, not only for myself, but because it seems 2.5x and CCE 2.5 are a problematic combination for many. There has got to be an explanation. I have been using CCE and Avisynth for many years with no problem and now, with quite a few others, am having these weird problems that appear out of the blue. (I don't know if the DirectShow error is related, but one has to wonder since they both appeared at once)

Since CCE is used as much or more than Divx and XVid with avisynth I do think some time should be apportioned to the problems people are having. If and when I do get some help with the problem I plan to do a write up and send it to Wilbert so people will not have to continue dealing with this frustration.

@Anybody, are there any tools somebody might recommend that would help me pin this error down?

[JuanC]

I hope this can help: Last few days I had some very similar, random problems encoding with VDMod. Crashes on exit, VDMod vanishing when loading some AVS scripts,... Today I found out the culprit: It all started when I put the "LoadPluginEx.dll" plugin (to load AVS 1.x and 2.x plugins into AVS 2.5.x) from the latest warpsharp package in the autoload plugin directory of AVS2.5.

So after deleting it from there, everything is back to normal. :J

I'm using:
latest CVS snapshot of AVS 2.5.1 (2003-03-19) running from VDMod's folder (I only use it with VDMod); and
latest CVS snapshot of AVS 2.0.8 (2003-03-19) running from system's folder (I use it with every other encoder)

[DDogg]

Agggggggghhhhh!, I forgot I did the Dust example in the docs a few days ago. JuanC, if you are ever in Texas, I would like to buy you a beer. This solved the WMP 6.4 (but not MPC) crashing on exit.

Now I can better concentrate on the CCE crash and the DIrectshowSource problem. 1 down and two to go.

[DDogg]

For reference purposes of those using search and bewildered by one instance of this non informative error message see this thread for a continuation:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47737