(r8080) crashing

[Damian227]

Trying to convert a MP4 to MKV (to work on my blu-ray player) but having no luck.

On 2.5.6 (before it refused to work anymore). I found copying video stream, changing audio to MP3 192kbs and saving as MKV worked perfectly. However on 2.6 if I change to MP3, i get (Audio - cannot setup audio encoder). If I copy both the video and audio stream, it begins and then crashes saying (file saved but too short) after about 5% through?

[Jan Gruuthuse]

Go with the textual menu audio and mark settings there what you want to use.
[v] track(s) to keep
[copy] -> MP3 (lame)
[filter] [v] remix

It did change a little, setting only left hand only looks at  1 track.

[Damian227]

That's solved the audio problem, it now begins to save... but crashes at 5% everytime saying 'Video too short. Video has saved but seems incomplete' any ideas?

[Jan Gruuthuse]

Preference: Threading: Auto-detect?
Does this happen with all that type of source video? Is it original or already processed previously with software?
Can you try a more recent version then r8080? If the result is the same?:

Can you recover this when message pops up, don't close that pop-up?
copy paste this below in your internet browser in new tab:

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%APPDATA%/avidemux/admlog.txt
open this link in new tab: https://gist.github.com/
on the tab with admlog.txt in internetbrowser select all and copy (from edit or file?)
switch to gist.github tab and paste there in text window, give a description avidemux 2.6 and revision number
give file name admlog.txt and create public gist.
provide the link in this posting, If lucky, developers have a look at it and provided there is time, a fix could follow if solution is found.

[Damian227]

Done - https://gist.github.com/3169973

Despite my limited knowledge on what any of this means, it does appear several things aren't loading and fail to start up? Could this be related to my AVG, as it flagged 9 items as viruses during the install?

[Jan Gruuthuse]

Most likely yes, AVG puts these in the vault and are out of reach for building/compiling/program.
If in doubt you could always upload these to http://www.virustotal.com/nl/ ; think this has to do how these files are packed?
can you try: r8087 http://avidemux.org/nightly/win32/
can you provide 20 MB/5 seconds sample video (no xxx or Ã,© ) and upload this to rapidshare (non paying option) or similar? and provide a link to it.

[Damian227]

Ok tried r8087 and I still get the 'File too short' issue about 5% the way through.

I managed to cut the file to 5 seconds of it's original form for a sample, however when only 5 seconds, it converts correctly into mkv with no issues at all?

[mean]

what's the error message ?

[Damian227]

Error message? I assume you mean what the pop up boxes says? "'File too short' and then a second one "File saved but doesn't seem complete".

[Damian227]

After a few more attempts, it appears the problem is only present with; Video Codec: H264 and Container: Matroska. If I opt for AVI instead, the projects will save... though not work. Incredibly frustrating as now 2.5.6 is also crashing with MKV's suddenly, I'm going to have to find an alternative program

[mean]

Assuming you are running linux
start avidemux from a shell
and look for "error" or "warning" at the end of the console messages
Under windows there 's a menu entry to get the same thing

[Damian227]

I genuinely can't find anything? I can find crash logs and admin logs? I'm on XP

[Jan Gruuthuse]

Log file should be here:

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%appdata%\avidemux6\admlog.txt
Or you start avidemux.exe from the dos prompt, change properties of it to keep windows open when finished.
use dos icon [C:>] from Program Start or Click on Start -> Run, type:

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CMD followed by [Enter]