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cybmole · 22-07-2007

an update on this elusive bug - I can now cause the crash to happen , or not, byt just operating the VDfab menus in a different sequence:
here's what I'm seeing. ON my HD I have a custom version of Last King of Scotland. I decide to ipdod it but whn I open Fad I see there's a choice of audio streams so I close fab open powerdvd to check out whihc satream I want, close that & go back to FAb. OK so ar. But now what I open the movie file in fab I get a crash. Very strange. so more testing reveals this:

method 1. this works with no crashes. set Fab to ipod or custom mode, then select the HD movie file. no problem & I can now select any of full disc, main movie, custom etc with no errors.
method 2: this is how to crash it. First I launch DVDfab - which defaults to opening in full disc mode. Then select the movie from the dvdfab/customise folder, while DVDfab is still in full disc mode. Now I'll get a crash as soon as I switch to main movie or to ipod or to custom options!

I've gone around this several times & it's very repeatable, yet vey puzzling. Why should opening the files in full disc mode lead to different behavour than opening the same files in some other mode ???

I also suspect the following actions may be contributory but will be cleared by a reboot:
Open a movie in DVDfab from Hard drive, but make the mistake of selecting the VIDEO-TS folder not the movie folder. (Easy to do by misatake if you also use POWERdvd as that's what you have to do with powerDVD to play a Hard drive copy. ) It seems that DVDFAB does not like being asked to open at the VIDEO-TS folder level and will subsequently crash a lot until the PC is rebooted .

I don't have any useful logs to post - nothing useful appears in the DVDfab logs as no burn attempts have been made.

22-07-2007	#10 (permalink)
cybmole CD Freaks Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 615	Re: problem with copying a copy, after custom mode an update on this elusive bug - I can now cause the crash to happen , or not, byt just operating the VDfab menus in a different sequence: here's what I'm seeing. ON my HD I have a custom version of Last King of Scotland. I decide to ipdod it but whn I open Fad I see there's a choice of audio streams so I close fab open powerdvd to check out whihc satream I want, close that & go back to FAb. OK so ar. But now what I open the movie file in fab I get a crash. Very strange. so more testing reveals this: method 1. this works with no crashes. set Fab to ipod or custom mode, then select the HD movie file. no problem & I can now select any of full disc, main movie, custom etc with no errors. method 2: this is how to crash it. First I launch DVDfab - which defaults to opening in full disc mode. Then select the movie from the dvdfab/customise folder, while DVDfab is still in full disc mode. Now I'll get a crash as soon as I switch to main movie or to ipod or to custom options! I've gone around this several times & it's very repeatable, yet vey puzzling. Why should opening the files in full disc mode lead to different behavour than opening the same files in some other mode ??? I also suspect the following actions may be contributory but will be cleared by a reboot: Open a movie in DVDfab from Hard drive, but make the mistake of selecting the VIDEO-TS folder not the movie folder. (Easy to do by misatake if you also use POWERdvd as that's what you have to do with powerDVD to play a Hard drive copy. ) It seems that DVDFAB does not like being asked to open at the VIDEO-TS folder level and will subsequently crash a lot until the PC is rebooted . I don't have any useful logs to post - nothing useful appears in the DVDfab logs as no burn attempts have been made.