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5th January 2021, 11:11 | #1 | Link |
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DTS-HD MAS encoder has stopped working....why?
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My legally purchased and supposedly perpetually licensed DTS-HD MAS encoder suite has stopped working, and I am not the only person this is happening to. Error log attached, and it is saying there is a 'configuration file error'. NOTHING has changed except the calendar year - Windows 7 Pro, same version of Java. A friend has the same issue on Windows 10 so it is not the OS. Anyone got any ideas, please?
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According to Google,
"Error 8018 – Encoder: Initialization – invalid configuration file" is listed on the user manual of the g*dd@mn software... As everybody knows, error messages very-often do not mean what they say. |
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6th January 2021, 10:36 | #9 | Link |
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Yes, I did go back to DTS for support, and as I explained to them in the follow-up this encoder cost me a lot of money at the time.
But I am getting ahead of myself: They replied telling me that this is no longer supported, and told me I could buy an upgrade to the (Mac only) DTS-X encoder. I guess you can imagine my response to that. To say I was not exactly impressed would be an understatement but the long & short of it is that I got a free DTS-X encoder from them, so anybody with the same issue as me should absolutely write to DTS support. The approach I used was that I had paid a lot of money in good faith for a perpetual license, and who was going to pay for the 'upgrade' please & that IMO the least they could do would be to provide me with a free one. To my complete surprise, this is what then happened and was waiting in my in-box this morning - and I will redeem the iLOK code shortly, in case they cancel it after reading this thread (which is extremely unlikely I admit). So anybody who has a license for this that has stopped working should absolutely get onto DTS - PM me and I will be more than happy to give you the exact wording I used that got results for me. The 'gotcha' is that you will need a bloody expensive dongle (a MacBook) to make it run though.
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Now it's impossible to determine whether the problem is a bug (past) + laziness (present) or a time-bomb, oooops, an intentional design flaw, I mean. |
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7th January 2021, 09:40 | #11 | Link | |
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My friend does not run a DAW - just an authoring business, so he has tried resetting the system clock and that works in version 2.0 of the encoder. Versions 2.5 & 2.6 are now stuck in 'pending', which is a different issue altogether. Reading between the lines, this is a time bomb. We have also started to see one version of Steinberg's WaveLab time out on a permanent license as well - I cannot remember if it is v6 or v7, and from memory it is v6 that is timed out now. So much for spending hard earned money on permanent licenses!!
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Something like this:
The DTS:X Encoder Suite is the successor to DTS-HD Master Audio Suite... blah-blah-blah... Existing owners of DTS Master Audio Suite are entitled to a special upgrade discount. Contact us at info at scenarist dot com for more information on this exclusive offer. source: https://www.scenarist.com/dts-x-encoder-landing/ Quote:
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I wonder what the logic is behind releasing the DTS-X Encoder Suite for Mac OS's only?
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Here's a fix I'm using for DTS-HD Master Audio Suite ver 2.60.22. Replace the DtsJobQueue.exe in the install folder with this one.
There's only a one-byte difference between this file and the original one on my install, so if you have a newer (or older) version, maybe see if they compare or not. (The change is byte 418E5 from 79 (in the original file) to EB. I didn't fix this, I found it on another forum... Alternate link, should last longer... https://www.dropbox.com/s/s1mtj6dhn5...Queue.exe?dl=0 Last edited by rik1138; 16th January 2021 at 23:09. |
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I'm in an ongoing production right now. Thank you so much! Best Jim |
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All one has to do is: open the original DtsJobQueue.exe in a hex editor, look for the byte-sequence "BF D0 2B FA 79", replace "79" with "EB", save. Last edited by filler56789; 15th January 2021 at 05:59. Reason: clarity |
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26th February 2021, 12:00 | #19 | Link |
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That is a terrific solution for all users of the Windows version of DTS-HD MAS. Is there a similar solution for the Mac OS X version? I would need either a patched version of the DtsJobQueue Unix executable or the relevant instructions to hex-edit said executable, or a patched DTSEncoder.app.
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I have just opened the DTSJobQueue for Mac with a hex editor, but only because of, let's say, my "morbid curiosity", since I cannot imagine what I should be looking for in it... Quote:
I mean, that the time-bomb in the Mac edition of the Master Audio Suite is in that file :-/ |
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