Vagas 6 crashing

Bobnoxious wrote on 8/16/2013, 8:18 AM
Can you tell me what this means? I am trying to select a template for audio. My file is an MPEG-2 video file. I want to render an MP3 (96KBps mono) of the audio track, but every time I attempt to render I get "an exception has occurred." - I have rebooted my computer twice. Same result:

Sony Vegas 6.0
Version 6.0d (Build 210)
Exception 0xC0000005 (access violation) READ:0xFFFFFFFE IP:0x15F42E26
In Module 'mp3rw.dll' at Address 0x15F40000 + 0x2E26
Thread: GUI ID=0x228 Stack=0x133000-0x140000

Comments

Gary James wrote on 8/16/2013, 9:19 AM
A quick internet check says that mp3rw.dll is a Sonic Foundry MP3 dll. So that should not be a problem. What is suspicious is that your error indicates an ACCESS VIOLATION.

This typically happens when you don't have access rights to run a program on a computer. For example, if you're logged into a guest account on a PC. Are you running Vegas as an administrator, or with an account with reduced privileges?

Tech Diver wrote on 8/16/2013, 11:47 AM
In the context of runtime errors, access violation means the software is attempting to access a memory address that is outside the valid range for the program that is executing. This is a programming issues and has absolutely Nothing to do with file access privileges.

Peter
Gary James wrote on 8/16/2013, 2:45 PM
Tech driver you are 100% correct. This error message does represent an attempt to read an invalid memory address. For several weeks I've been back and forth with tech support fighting a problem with my Acronis Backup installation. The program runs fine, but when I try to invoke the Acronis Help file I get an error message that implies a file access rights violation. When I saw the error message and the words Access Violation, it triggered an autonomic response. I should have paid closer attention and read the message more thoroughly <sigh!>.
Tech Diver wrote on 8/16/2013, 2:56 PM
No problem. Been there. Done that.

Peter
musicvid10 wrote on 8/16/2013, 2:58 PM
afaik, that mp3 encoder has not been supported by Sony in several years, and you're unlikely to be able to register it..
The workaround is to render as WAV, then open that in a good mp3 encoder, preferably a Lame frontend.
FixitMad0 wrote on 8/22/2013, 3:47 PM
The "other" option would be to find the last version of Sound Forge and/or ACID that uses that same codec and install it on your system.

That will typically update the common shared plug-ins to that version.

Just another thought. I know Sonic Foundry recommended back in those days to do that when one had an issue with a plug-in. After verifying if this works, you can can then remove the "demo" install.

Hopefully that dll file you are using is not on some corrupted sector of the hard drive? I would try to run scandisk and then defrag your system just to make sure we are not looking at HD issues.