Crash with DVDA 4

NickHope wrote on 9/16/2006, 12:06 AM

Started my first DVDA 4 project this morning. Dumped a 50 minute MPEG 2 (8000kbps elementary stream created in Cinemacraft Encoder Basic) on the timeline and it crashed as it was building the preview.

This is repeatable (on the same file at least) and doesn't happen when I drop the same file into DVDA 3.

AppName: dvdarch40.exe AppVer: 4.0.0.125 ModName: mcmpegin.dll

Will contact Sony with the details. In the meantime it's back to DVDA 3 for me.

Comments

NickHope wrote on 10/14/2006, 11:00 AM

Still getting these crashes in 4.0a with long CCE MPEG2 files.

I'll encode a Main Concept version for comparison.

DCV wrote on 10/19/2006, 8:55 PM

Same error here. Uggghhhh... It was my first DVDA4 project as well. I'll file a bug report as well. I really hope this gets fixed soon, I'd hate to be stuck at DVDA 3. Madison, please fix this so we can use DVDA 4!

John

Kanst wrote on 10/20/2006, 7:32 AM

The same.
m2v 352x576 demuxed from DVD.
After selecting it in project and switch to timeline window:
---------------------------------
Sony DVD Architect
Version 4.0a (Build 147)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) READ:0x5F4D995 IP:0x2323CB2E
In Module 'mcmpegin.dll' at Address 0x23200000 + 0x3CB2E
Thread: Main - Run ID=0x918 Stack=0x126000-0x130000
Registers:
EAX=00018353 CS=001b EIP=2323cb2e EFLGS=00210293
EBX=05e25048 SS=0023 ESP=0012681c EBP=00126994
ECX=05e8bea0 DS=0023 ESI=00004d77 FS=003b
EDX=00000001 ES=0023 EDI=0000000b GS=0000
Bytes at CS:EIP:
2323CB2E: 80 7C C1 5D 00 0F 84 E4 .|.]....
2323CB36: 00 00 00 83 EC 0C 53 E8 ......S.
Stack Dump:
0012681C: 00000000
00126820: 00000000
00126824: 00000000
00126828: 00000000
0012682C: 00000000
00126830: 00000000
00126834: 00000000
00126838: 00000000
0012683C: 00000000
00126840: 00000000
00126844: 00000000
00126848: 00000000
0012684C: 00000000
00126850: 00000000
00126854: 00000000
00126858: 00000000
> 00126998: 33BB911A 33BB0000 + 911A (mcplug.dll)
> 001269B4: 33BBA6A1 33BB0000 + A6A1 (mcplug.dll)
> 001269D0: 004F209B 00400000 + F209B (dvdarch40.exe)
001269D4: 02807370 02630000 + 1D7370
001269D8: 00004D77
001269DC: 00000000
001269E0: 001269F8 00030000 + F69F8
> 00126A00: 0073FC18 00400000 + 33FC18 (dvdarch40.exe)
00126A04: 02807370 02630000 + 1D7370
00126A08: 001801FC 00140000 + 401FC
00126A0C: 00000000
> 00126A10: 004796FB 00400000 + 796FB (dvdarch40.exe)
00126A14: 0000000B
00126A18: 00000000
00126A1C: 00004D77
00126A20: 00000000
> 00126A60: 00700061 00400000 + 300061 (dvdarch40.exe)
00126A64: 00000001
00126A68: 00000000
00126A6C: 00000000
00126A70: 00000001
> 00126AC4: 007A1200 00400000 + 3A1200 (dvdarch40.exe)
00126AC8: 00000000
> 00126AD4: 006E4858 00400000 + 2E4858 (dvdarch40.exe)
- - -
0012FFF0: 00000000
0012FFF4: 00000000
0012FFF8: 00719E59 00400000 + 319E59 (dvdarch40.exe)
0012FFFC: 00000000
----------------------------------------
And I find only a one "medicine": replace ...\DVD Architect 4.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mcplug folder with ...\Vegas 7.0\FileIO Plug-Ins\mcplug folder

DCV wrote on 10/24/2006, 12:43 PM

Time to vent,

I've had a support ticket in with Sony for 4 days now and have yet to get a reply on this issue. I'm really disappointed with this response time to an issue that several other people are having and is stopping me from using new software that I've paid for. I'm not interested in waiting several months to hit the next patch cycle so I can eventually use DVDA 4...

John

ForumAdmin wrote on 10/25/2006, 12:04 PM

I can never argue with a good vent. :)

We've been working on this bug for a while now and might have a work-around. Simply uninstall DVDA 4.0a and then reinstall it.

In our testing, this fixed the problem. It seems that the bug is a combination of updating DVDA 4.0 to 4.0a and index files created for long .m2v files. We are still working on it, but I wanted to share our work-around now.

Thanks,
DaveS

DCV wrote on 10/26/2006, 8:31 AM

Thanks for the workaround. It worked. I can pull CCE mpvs into DVDA 4 now and take advantage of all the new features. Please address or reply to these issues sooner next time, I really don't like venting and I want to sing praises about the new software.

John