Problem with Zarx264gui...

Lord Rae · Post by **Lord Rae** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:16 pm

When installing the amvapp3 I get it installed fine all the way to Zarx264gui...

Even it installs fine it seems. But then it gets to the tests... and fails every single one.

1. Ensure that the Microsoft .NET framework version 2.0 or later is installed on your PC.

Yes I do. I even triple checked it.

2. You need the Nero AAC Encoder.

Yes its fine. It installs fine. I double checked to see that the file was in the correct place and even reinstalled it on my own to make sure I had it installed fine.

I even get the screen it says you should see if everything is installed correctly.

However when I try and load my avs script (even the most basic 1 line scripts that just open the file) I get an error.

"External component has thrown an exception."

I get that whether I use a Huffy export from Premier or whether I do a uncompressed avi.

That however is not the error I get when I install Zarx. That is:

"The format is not supported. (Error=80040265)"

Thanks in advance.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:27 pm

is your audio attached?

ive found i have problems with attached audio, usually i just use a "killaudio()" line to remove it and add the audio separately.

Lord Rae · Post by **Lord Rae** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:51 pm

nope apparently attached audio isn't the issue.

I tried adding KillAudio() line and it didn't help. The file still fails to open in Virtualdub and media player classic.

Its been a couple years since I've encoded anything... so I thought I was just rusty but its becoming pretty tough to solve. heh.

Thanks for any help.

This is a mostly fresh install of windows. I'm using Adobe CS3. I'm fully patched and updated on windows with service pack 3.

Since I captured my video I expected a bit of a problem... I swear after I get these encoded I'm switching to ripping footage. It just causes too many problems getting my video that way. And my capture card despite being a very good one is starting to show its age.

Luckily though since I captured I can reinstall amvapp without any problems really.

After fiddling with stuff for a while I did get actually a few completed tests when reinstalling AMVapp3. Most of them still failed but this time they failed because they ran out of memory.

Why would that be?

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 3:58 pm

post your script?

and are you on Windows Vista?

Lord Rae · Post by **Lord Rae** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:26 pm

Nope Windows Xp.

The file opens when I just open it in Vdub or other players.

But if I do a simple one line script and try and open the script it doesn't... I'm kind of lost.

I had this

AVISource("E:\AVS\WordsVer24.avi"

but changed it to:

AVISource("E:\AVS\WordsVer24.avi"
KillAudio()

I've used AVS before although as I said its been about 2 years since I encoded anything.

JaddziaDax · Post by **JaddziaDax** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:33 pm

you are missing a ) at the end of AVISource("E:\AVS\WordsVer24.avi"

it should be:

AVISource("E:\AVS\WordsVer24.avi")

if that doesn't fix the problem i donno wut will O:

Lord Rae · Post by **Lord Rae** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:47 pm

nah its there... I just missed it on the copy and paste.

Lord Rae · Post by **Lord Rae** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 4:54 pm

Oh and by the way I'm thinking this is more of an issue of avs screwing up than Zarx specifically.

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:41 pm

The version included in amvapp has known bugs. Download the latest version from http://zarxrax.kicks-ass.net/
I think this should be noted in the guide.

Lord Rae · Post by **Lord Rae** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 7:25 pm

Oh yeah I wouldn't have posted if that solved it. Was one of the first things I tried.