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General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: Deadbeat Engineer on June 06, 2010, 06:45:10 pm

Title: [Solved] Converting Demos to Video causes Explorer.exe to crash. GPP1.2
Post by: Deadbeat Engineer on June 06, 2010, 06:45:10 pm
Whenever I try to convert a demo to video it seems to work fine, but when I go to the folder the video's in, explorer.exe immediately crashes. This is in XP and I'm using the GPP 1.2...
I'll type in:
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\demo demo0003
\video grangerairlift
\stopvideo
This makes Trem sort of freeze as well when it goes back to the main screen. I can't click anything in it, and the music freezes at this one little clip as well. If I just press a key or click out of it as well, it does the same thing.
Should I be typing something else in instead of \stopvideo, or do I have to let it go through the whole thing?
Title: Re: Converting Demos to Video causes Explorer.exe to crash. (Windows XP/GPP1.2)
Post by: David on June 06, 2010, 06:54:13 pm
That's a new one.

Can you post up the console output?

And does the explorer file browser or shell crash?
Title: Re: Converting Demos to Video causes Explorer.exe to crash. (Windows XP/GPP1.2)
Post by: Deadbeat Engineer on June 06, 2010, 09:24:47 pm
Umm yeah lemmie try again and I'll post console. The browser itself crashes, taking out all icons and the taskbar at the bottom until it restarts or I manually restart it.
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Wrote 700:700 frames to videos/grangertest.avi
And now it worked fine this time, sort of. I had the old file & the new one in the folder, and it crashed, but the new one had a thumbnail showing a frame from the video, while the old one didn't. So I guess it was an error with the thumbnail...

I tried one more time to be sure, and I guess I was pressing a key to stop it, which caused the error. Thanks for the help.
Title: Re: [Solved] Converting Demos to Video causes Explorer.exe to crash. GPP1.2
Post by: David on June 06, 2010, 10:20:29 pm
1.1 makes slightly broken files which some programs don't read right.  Maybe explorer is one of those programs?  Sure shouldn't crash though.
Title: Re: [Solved] Converting Demos to Video causes Explorer.exe to crash. GPP1.2
Post by: Deadbeat Engineer on June 07, 2010, 03:27:14 am
1.1 makes slightly broken files which some programs don't read right.  Maybe explorer is one of those programs?  Sure shouldn't crash though.
Well, I am using 1.2... And I think each time I made a bad file is when I just hit a random key to stop the video instead of typing
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/stopvideo
in the console. It basically caused it to make an incomplete file, and froze up trem that way, otherwise with /stopvideo it works fine.
Title: Re: [Solved] Converting Demos to Video causes Explorer.exe to crash. GPP1.2
Post by: A Spork on June 16, 2010, 04:35:41 am
*Bump*
just throwing this out there: explorer.exe crashes on me too when I try to go to my videos folder in /base, but it's fine if I go to the video through open in like wmp or some such thing.
Possible bug in the /video command or something?
Title: Re: [Solved] Converting Demos to Video causes Explorer.exe to crash. GPP1.2
Post by: SlackerLinux on June 16, 2010, 05:03:34 am
tremfusion was looking into using ffmpeg to encode video into something a bit more modern but im not sure how far they got with it

havent seen alot of updates from the tremfusion team /me wonders what happened
Title: Re: [Solved] Converting Demos to Video causes Explorer.exe to crash. GPP1.2
Post by: Deadbeat Engineer on June 19, 2010, 03:25:33 pm
*Bump*
just throwing this out there: explorer.exe crashes on me too when I try to go to my videos folder in /base, but it's fine if I go to the video through open in like wmp or some such thing.
Possible bug in the /video command or something?
*necro*
You didn't stop the video record properly. Did you just press a key to quit? You have to open the console and type:
Code: [Select]
\stopvideo
Otherwise it gets a thumbnail error and that's what causes explorer to crash.
Title: Re: [Solved] Converting Demos to Video causes Explorer.exe to crash. GPP1.2
Post by: your face on June 19, 2010, 06:46:58 pm
lolwut necro??
Title: Re: [Solved] Converting Demos to Video causes Explorer.exe to crash. GPP1.2
Post by: Deadbeat Engineer on June 21, 2010, 11:07:52 pm
lolwut necro??
Oops, My computer has dates all funky atm. Thought this was a little older than it is. Nobody really cares about necro here though, I realize.
Title: Re: [Solved] Converting Demos to Video causes Explorer.exe to crash. GPP1.2
Post by: A Spork on June 24, 2010, 10:51:22 pm
I just hit convert and left until it finished converting....