Finished AVI causes Explorer and player to crash

[Bateluer]

I just started playing around with AutoGK, after seeing how simple it was to setup for a decent looking backup. I DLed 1.95 and made some backups of some old martial art flicks, these worked perfectly. Next, I did the movie Saw, again no problems. However, this is where the problems started cropping up.

I ripped the movie Kung Pow using DVD Decrypter 3.5.4.0 in IFO mode. Using AGK 1.95, DivX 5.2.1, and VBR MP3 256bit, I set AGK to encode at 75% quality. However, upon completion, clicking on the final product causes explorer.exe to crash. Ignoring it and trying to open it in MPC 6.4.8.4 causes MPC to crash. WMP9 also crashed.

I've tried re-encoding the movie using a variety of settings, both XviD 1.03 and DivX 5.2.1, set output file sizes, different types of audio, etc. I've tried uninstalling all my codecs, DVD Decrypter, AGK, and reinstalling them all, I tried reripping the VOB files(using different DVD drives), nothing helped. Just clicking on the finished AVI causes explorer to crash. I even tried uninstalling 1.95 and installing 2.08b, which I currently have installed, it also did nothing.

My system has been perfectly stable in everything else, and is certainly not a slouch in the performance department. Spec's are below.

P4 3.4E
Asus P4P800 Deluxe (1019bios)
1GB Corsair DDR400
6800GT
Audigy LS
Plextor 716A & 504A DVD writers
Pioneer 16x DVD-ROM
120GB WD (partitioned into boot and storage)
2x 300GB Seagate SATA drives
WinXP Pro SP2


What could be the problem here? Any insight would be helpful.

[Bateluer]

Anyone?

[niamh]

All your other files play but this one?
post your autogk log.
host a sample of the file so we can see if it plays back for us.
sounds like a codec problem, but if it is only this file, it's curious

[Bateluer]

Odd, my other movies used to play fine, but now simply accessing the drive causes windows to crash. :eek: :angry:

I can stream the files over my LAN to either of my roommates machines and my notebook, however, so the files are good. Something else is going on here.

I looked at the log files, there was nothing to suggest a problem. I deleted them when it was just those folders that were causing explorer to crash so I no longer have them.

I'll go run some Hdd diags and virus scans, see what turns up.

Edit - Seems all my hdds cause explorer to crash, but only when viewing a folder with video files in it. This goes a little deeper than an AGK problem, methinks. Not sure what exactly would cause that though this machine is probably due for a reformat anyway.

Edit 2 - Seems the refomat solved the playing issue, but no idea what started it. It just seemed to happen. I encoded 3 DVDs successfully using AGK without incident. It wasn't until I tried Kung Pow and Ghost in the Shell 2 that the crashes began to occur.

[Sharktooth]

Err...corrupted AVI's.
Start->Run->regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll

[shertiger]

I had the same problem. The fix above sorted out windows explorer from crashing when selecting the file.

I noticed that although windows media player and media player classic crashed when attempting to play, vlc played the file no problem.
Further investigation identified the problem in the ffdshow settings. I had changed the xvid setting from libavcodec to Xvid as this resulted in a better picture. Changing it back to libavcodec stopped the players from crashing.

Does anyone know why changing from libavcodec to xvid would cause the avi file generated by Gordian Knot to crash. Would a more recent version of the libavcodec library have the latest xvid build?

[CWR03]

Better yet, update your XviD codec independently. Ffdshow doesn't seem to know the difference whether it's the packaged codec or the newest one.

[shertiger]

I've installed the latest version of xvid (1.03?) that came with GK if that's what you mean by installing it separately.