RandomEngy
Up to date Vidcoder versions have not worked - not one time - since October 2021.
Problem Description
As the title reads: Vidcoder, all of the up-to-date versions, have not worked since October 2021.
I have used vidcoder since 2012, and I had never previously experienced not even one single problem with Vidcoder, but for whatever the reasons, the updated versions of Vidcoder over the past 3 or 4 months, do not work on Windows 10, and also do not work on Windows 11.
I mean, to be brutally honest, I am absolutely terrified by this long-standing situation, I don't think I'm built for this type of stress, where one casual update on Vidcoder gets to destroy my entire working life and by extension my entire emotional well being.
Anyways, in my current personal predicament, I unfortunately cannot afford to buy a new computer (which might be a costly solution to my problem), and of course (as was stated in the title), the lack of an operational vidcoder completely kills all of my work; it is my emotional well being that has taken the hit so far, but honestly, there is only so much emotional stress that can be contained before it begins to show physically.
Honestly, I am even thinking of just throwing my project - of over 5 years of development - in the trash, because I'm just not cut out for this type of work, where one casual update has destroyed 4 months of my time, with no viable solution in sight, by which I mean that the problem is probably a permanent unfixable type of problem that will require a new computer, which I will not be doing; I literally cannot do it, even if I were inclined to experience further technocratic-torture.
I had many hours of video that I had already stored on my computer (before Vidcoder was killed by said update), that I spent the whole months of October 2021, November 2021, December 2021, and parts of January 2022, working with the video files that I had already encoded, but now that I need to add new video files, in other words, now that I need vidcoder to work, what I find is that not one single one of the updated versions seem to work; I was notified that I needed net 5.0 for the newest versions to work, but net 5.0 did nothing to fix the problem.
The same exact problem persists with net 5.0 and also with net 6.0.
Of course, my first hopeful solution to this problem, was to delete the updated (broken) version of vidcoder, and then immediately download the older versions of vidcoder that had worked so well in the past; I must've downloaded at least 3 different older versions of vidcoder, but the same exact problem repeated itself. That is what I did back in November 2021; I then waited through December 2021, to see if one of the updated versions would fix the problem, because of the well-earned trust and loyalty that I had for this brand that had worked more or less perfectly from 2012 until 2021, but not one single one of the recent updates has fixed the problem.
At this point, I think I must consider the possibility that Vidcoder is simply not going to work on the computer that I currently have. It is a relatively new, barely used computer, but something must've happened at some point in October 2021. At any rate, I can definitely say that I am completely out of ideas, and with every passing week (not that this is relevant to this discussion), I'm trying to come to terms with the idea of just destroying the whole project; throw it in the trash and never look back, it has given me so many headaches.
What version of VidCoder are you running?
7.3 Beta
Encode Log
I tried but failed to do the "Copy log" function. For a person with my very limited grasp on this, said "Copy log" function is neither simple enough nor intuitive enough. I tried to inform myself with multiple google searches, but I failed to find the helpful insightful commentary (directions) I was hoping to find.
Update: I managed to fix the problem by unchecking 'Use Worker Process to Encode' as was mentioned in the following thread by a person with the same exact problem that I had...
Vidcoder just hangs at 0.2% converting DVD to MKV #944
I saw a post where RandomEngy asked the user to see if unchecking 'Use Worker Process to Encode' helped, and doing so seems to have solved my problem. Does this suggest what is wrong with my computer?
thanks
https://github.com/RandomEngy/VidCoder/issues/944
Hopefully the fix will prove to be a long term solution to said problem.
Sorry you ran into this. I'm trying to find the root cause of the issue. Which old versions did you try?
Would also help to get some logs.
- Enable worker process encoding
- Go to Global Options -> Advanced -> Logging Verbosity and selected "Extended"
- Start the encode
- Go to Windows -> Log and click "Copy"
- Paste it here
Hello David, I managed to fix the problem by unchecking the worker process encoding option, after reading a thread by a person with the same identical problem that I have. Vidcoder just hangs at 0.2% converting DVD to MKV · Issue #944 · RandomEngy/VidCoder · GitHub
That thread saved my life (well not literally, but you get the point, I'm extremely categorically relieved and happy that I can continue my project, and possibly finish it at some point in February), and now I'm just trying to encode as much video as possible, before some new problem comes around; but I hope not, after all, I had used vidcoder with zero problems since 2012. Having said that, I honestly haven't the slightest idea as to why the problem was totally fixed with a simple unchecking of the enable worker process encoding function; beats me, but then again, I don't really know much of anything about the technology and the technocratic finer details, I exclusively work with animations, and I find it very useful to encode video that can help to shape my own work as an artist. At any rate, thank you for your time and attention. Regards. Hector,
On Wednesday, January 26, 2022, 03:01:13 PM AST, David Rickard ***@***.***> wrote:
Sorry you ran into this. I'm trying to find the root cause of the issue. Which old versions did you try?
Would also help to get some logs.
- Enable worker process encoding
- Go to Global Options -> Advanced -> Logging Verbosity and selected "Extended"
- Start the encode
- Go to Windows -> Log and click "Copy"
- Paste it here
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Hello David,
I managed to fix the problem by unchecking the worker process encoding option, after reading a thread by a person with the same identical problem that I had.
Vidcoder just hangs at 0.2% converting DVD to MKV · Issue #944 · RandomEngy/VidCoder · GitHub
That thread saved my life (well not literally, but you get the point, I'm extremely categorically relieved and happy that I can continue my project, and possibly finish it at some point in February), and now I'm just trying to encode as much video as possible, before some new problem comes around; but I hope not, after all, I had used vidcoder with zero problems since 2012.
Having said that, I honestly haven't the slightest idea as to why the problem was totally fixed with a simple unchecking of the enable worker process encoding function; beats me, but then again, I don't really know much of anything about the technology and the technocratic finer details, I exclusively work with animations and drawings, and I find it very useful to encode the video that helps me shape my own work as an artist. At any rate, thank you for your time and attention. Regards.
I also don't know why that fixed it. I was asking for logs because it would help me find out why. But if you can't help me then I'll need to get logs from someone else.