johnc151

Hi Brian, Thanks for that info. I've tried turning off the gadgets - which didn't solve the problem, and also tried excluding x264 from the DEP function in W7 - and again that didn't seem to work. What is slightly odd is that x264.exe has stopped crashing - and now simply "stops working" (great help Microsoft!). It's really frustrating - I'm guessing it's something to do with the OS - but I cannot for the life of me work out what! Re your comments on Chrome, it does open up a number of threads hence the number of processes it runs. I've had exactly the same problem whether chrome runs or not - so I'm guessing it's not that. It's odd as well in that Sony vegas will quite happily churn out an mp4 file - so at the moment I'm having to put my slideshows together in that in order to get them to render.

Thanks Stu, that's exactly the same issue I'm having... and I've done pretty much everything this user does. The only that I can possibly see that would be a resource issue is the the x264 program seems to crash when it's memory use hits a certain point i.e. 300,000 KB (or 3GB) - hence why I think it's linked to the amount of memory that it access (it's a 32bit process as compared to a 64 bit process). I've email Jan to see whether he ever resolved the issue.

Following a complete windows reinstall - I'm still having exactly the same problem - P2E wont produce a mp4 file.. x264 crashes at 40%

Sorry Ken, but none of those links really help. This is really fustrating, as I can see what is causing the issue, and I can see that there are later releases of x246 which are for a 64 bit OS - I just can't get P2E to use a later version to identify if that is the problem. Igor, have you got any ideas?

Right screenshots attached - sorry I was having to rdp from my phone so these are iphone screen grabs. The first shows the settings used, the remaining four show the crash error message. And have tried without any music and the crash still happened at 40.4% Igor, just out of interest, what release of x264 is P2E using for the h264 encoding - it looks like r50 to me?

Ken, Like I said previously, the wavs aren't causing the problem. What P2E does (simple version) is encode the audio first, then the video and then puts the two together. The problem I have is that the crash is happening whilst it's encoding the video (the video encoding is carried out by x264.exe component). I can certainly try using mp3s but I'm guessing that wont solve the issue.

Yachtsman - it doesn't seem to have a problem with the wav files on a short clip - and it looks like that when it's encoding the audio stream that all works (I see a temporary sound file in the directory ready for P2E to merge back with the completed video). From everything I can see happening, I would say that it seems to be some sort of memory issue - I've checked the memory with memtest etc and that comes back fine. What's more annoying is that I can happily edit video in Sony Vegas without any issue.

Hi Igor, I'm not at my pc at the moment, so can't send you any screenshots but, in answer to your other questions: 1) Windows 7 Ultimate, 64 Bit - 12Gb Ram 2) It crashes at around 40% of the encoding 3) The videobuilder doesn't show an error message, it's a windows application error message saying "X264 has crashed" with the normal options to search for a solution and close the application. I'll attach the application crash data later on today. The video builder window just shows the video frozen at the point of the crash. 4) I've tried with a number of different options in terms of resolution etc - it crashes on all of them 5) I can encode a short slide show - I've done one of 30 secs with no problem 6) No, the 18min show includes about 361 slides and 4 music tracks (wav files).

Hi Lin, X264 is the actual program that P2E calls when you want to produce a H264 type video file. P2E calls it and then passes the slideshow images to it to render into a video file. I've just tried a really cut down slideshow i.e 30 secs and that works. The slideshow I'm having problems with is about 18 mins long - which fits into my thinking that the x264 program is crashing due to a memory leak - hence why I've tried to replace it with a 64 bit version to no avail. When I try to produce my 18 min long slideshow, it I've already tried to do a clean install and still have the same problem. I wouldn't have thought that DirectX is a problem as I don't think that's being called when x264.exe is running.

Hi, I'm having a strange problem with P2E - but related to the x264 component. It's struggling to output MP4 files - in fact it hangs and crashes on even the simplest of exports.... I've not yet output a single show! I see the cpu ramp up, and it looks like the private memory for that process increases until it reaches around 290,000KB - 300,000 before it crashes. I'm running W7 64bit with 12GB of ram and a page file of 3GB-18GB so memory shouldn't be an issue. I've tried to download a later version of x264 for 64 bit architecture and drop into the right folder - but I can't get P2E to play nicely - when I do this, I lose all video conversion! Has anyone else seen this issue and how do I fix it? John