Forum - Tips & Tricks - Avoiding random crashes - Messages http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1159-avoiding-random-crashes.aspx Forum - Tips & Tricks - Avoiding random crashes - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:45:31 GMT Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:45:31 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1159-avoiding-random-crashes.aspx Message from ukBerty
I just had to set the option for the Codec up and I'm back to normal. The upgrade must have reset everything.

All sorted and back in business]]> Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:45:31 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1159-avoiding-random-crashes.aspx Message from Danimal
Thanks again!]]> Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:59:09 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1159-avoiding-random-crashes.aspx Message from CrazyDave ukBerty wrote:

Update - oh dear - my output is now total garbage ! I'll have to have a fiddle over the weekend.
edited by ukBerty on 15/07/2011



Yikes! My output still looks the same... I'm glad that your crashes seem to be fixed though.]]> Fri, 15 Jul 2011 10:21:33 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1159-avoiding-random-crashes.aspx Message from ukBerty
Just for your info I am experiencing the random crashing when clicking on make video. This locks my whole machine rather than just crashing Muvizu.

I was already on NVidia 275.33 and I don't think XVid was installed at all (at least not from xvid.org) - but I've now installed it.

I am using the FFV1 encoder from klite - so this has been updated with the beta 7 version.

I will let you know how it goes. It moves from make video to the preview screen a lot faster now, and this is where it used to crash.


Update - oh dear - my output is now total garbage ! I'll have to have a fiddle over the weekend.
edited by ukBerty on 15/07/2011]]> Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:44:33 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1159-avoiding-random-crashes.aspx Message from CrazyDave
I'd been playing around on a couple of the work laptops here at Muvizu... one of them would crash intermittently when using the app (especially when I changed video options or was running Windows Media Player at the same time) and the other would crash consistently when I tried to make a video with "FFDShow codec". After investigation I found that these crashes are not really faults with Muvizu but with the software setup on these machines: they just needed a little bit of TLC.

Both machines had had a codec pack installed at some point in the past that came with both xvid and FFDShow codecs.

I went to http://www.xvid.org and installed the 1.3.2 stable release of the xvid codec on both machines. I then went to http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/ and installed the lastest stable release "beta 7". Then I went to http://www.nvidia.com and updated my graphics card driver to the latest 275.33 version.

Both machines have since stopped crashing.

So my tip is: "update the codecs that you have installed and your graphics card driver" ... it's like changing the oil on your car

Cheers, Dave.
edited by CrazyDave on 14/07/2011]]> Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:49:17 GMT