#541 Constantly Crashing in Vista

[Anonymous]

I get COM surrogate crashes, WMP crashes and MPC crashes.

The COM surrogate usually crashes when Windows is generating thumbnails of videos with subtitles (although it crashes without thumbnails too).

WMP and MPC crash (usually) when loading a new video after one has already been playing, and sometimes when initially loading a video.

In my Problem Reports and Solutions explorer (part of Vista), after reporting the issues to Microsoft, they directed me here. So hopefully you guys understand this stuff.

It works, just crashes every time I use it. Great product though!

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I have 133 of these COM Surrogate errors (not all are ffdshow.ax, but many):

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: DllHost.exe
Application Version: 6.0.5744.16384
Application Timestamp: 45234b70
Fault Module Name: ffdshow.ax
Fault Module Version: 1.0.0.1
Fault Module Timestamp: 416b7dc4
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00005f5e
OS Version: 6.0.5744.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: cae0
Additional Information 2: c6b143c661515d69d4d8c4d358f23b56
Additional Information 3: 200a
Additional Information 4: 0f4a8f2714c3c493768bf25323acd743

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 333701713

I have 9 of these:

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: mplayerc.exe
Application Version: 6.4.9.0
Application Timestamp: 445b0c12
Fault Module Name: ffdshow.ax
Fault Module Version: 1.0.0.1
Fault Module Timestamp: 416b7dc4
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00005f5e
OS Version: 6.0.5744.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: cae0
Additional Information 2: c6b143c661515d69d4d8c4d358f23b56
Additional Information 3: 200a
Additional Information 4: 0f4a8f2714c3c493768bf25323acd743

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 291806977

and, 39 of these:

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: wmplayer.exe
Application Version: 11.0.5744.6324
Application Timestamp: 45234fea
Fault Module Name: ffdshow.ax
Fault Module Version: 1.0.0.1
Fault Module Timestamp: 416b7dc4
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00005f5e
OS Version: 6.0.5744.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 8d13
Additional Information 2: cdca9b1d21d12b77d84f02df48e34311
Additional Information 3: 8d13
Additional Information 4: cdca9b1d21d12b77d84f02df48e34311

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID: 333826284

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I see this project isn't active. I don't have the problem using h-yamagata's build: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow-tryout/

[Dennis]

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I am having exactly the same problem. Can't even list a directory containing video. Although, it does not happen with all input formats - some .avi files will thumbnail just fine. Any app that calls the ffdshow utility will crash immediately if there is anything odd in the input file. Unfortunately, I have no clue what the anomaly would be.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Hi, I solved this problem with Control Panel / Performance Information and Tools / Adjust visual effects / and Adjust for best performance. In fact, it's the "Show preview" which makes crash with my PC... Good luck !

[h.yamagata]

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Thank you for your reports.
fixed at ffdshow-tryouts rev 742.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=173941