unknown exception caught

[antroboy]

I cannot use Video Enhancer at all, when I click "Choose" with any type of
file it crashes with the following message:

Unknown exception caught
Unknown exception caught
(80004005)

This is what the log recorded:

23:34:03 (e) Exception EAccessViolation in module SKINEN~1.DLL at 00000000.
Access violation at address 7C910F00 in module 'ntdll.dll'. Read of address 0004017C.

23:34:03 (e) Stack list, generated 5/30/2009 11:34:03 PM
23:34:03 (e) [7C910F00] wcsncpy + $9A1
23:34:03 (e) [00E33A07]
23:34:03 (e) [00EE52F5] SetWndObject + $429D
23:34:03 (e) [00EE551D] SetWndObject + $44C5
23:34:03 (e) [00EE7F39] SetWndObject + $6EE1
23:34:03 (e) [00E33763]
23:34:03 (e) [00E9CF26] DllUnregisterServer + $53722
23:34:03 (e) [00E9D48F] DllUnregisterServer + $53C8B
23:34:03 (e) [00EF1C0C] SetWndObject + $10BB4
23:34:03 (e) [00EE2A69] SetWndObject + $1A11
23:34:03 (e) [00EF08C9] SetWndObject + $F871
23:34:03 (e) [00E3220D]
23:34:03 (e) [00EFF6FD] SetWndObject + $1E6A5
23:34:03 (e) [00EFF55F] SetWndObject + $1E507
23:34:03 (e) [00EFFD34] SetWndObject + $1ECDC
23:34:03 (e) [00EFFECD] SetWndObject + $1EE75
23:34:03 (e) [00E338B7]
23:34:03 (e) [00EFFC8A] SetWndObject + $1EC32
23:34:03 (e) [00F00063] SetWndObject + $1F00B
23:34:03 (e) [00EF071B] SetWndObject + $F6C3
23:34:03 (e) [00EE1527] SetWndObject + $4CF
23:34:03 (e) [00EE08B5] DllUnregisterServer + $970B1
23:34:03 (e) [00EFF5CC] SetWndObject + $1E574
23:34:03 (e) [00EF0BFA] SetWndObject + $FBA2
23:34:03 (e) [00EFFDF0] SetWndObject + $1ED98
23:34:03 (e) [00EFF652] SetWndObject + $1E5FA
23:34:03 (e) [00EFF809] SetWndObject + $1E7B1
23:34:03 (e) [00EFF374] SetWndObject + $1E31C
23:34:03 (e) [00EFF5CC] SetWndObject + $1E574
23:34:03 (e) [00EF0BFA] SetWndObject + $FBA2
23:34:03 (e) [00EFFDF0] SetWndObject + $1ED98
23:34:03 (e) [00EFF652] SetWndObject + $1E5FA
23:34:03 (e) [00EFF809] SetWndObject + $1E7B1
23:34:03 (e) [00EFF374] SetWndObject + $1E31C
23:34:03 (e) [00EF241B] SetWndObject + $113C3
23:34:03 (e) [00EF24C3] SetWndObject + $1146B
23:34:03 (e) [00EF0BE8] SetWndObject + $FB90
23:34:03 (e) [00EFFDF0] SetWndObject + $1ED98
23:34:03 (e) [00EFF652] SetWndObject + $1E5FA
23:34:03 (e) [00EFF809] SetWndObject + $1E7B1
23:34:03 (e) [00EFF374] SetWndObject + $1E31C
23:34:03 (e) System   : Windows XP Professional, Version: 5.1, Build: A28, "Service Pack 3"
23:34:03 (e) Processor: Intel, Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad  CPU   Q8200  @ 2.33GHz, 2333 MHz MMX

Any ideas?

[Dee Mon]

Thanks for reporting!
This seems to be an issue with the component used for skins.

You can avoid it by removing skinengine.dll from Video Enhancer folder. VE will look differently, but the error should be gone.

[antroboy]

I did delete the skins dll, and the error remains:

Unknown exception caught
Unknown exception caught
(80004005)

The only difference is that now when I click on "Choose" the program
does not crash, it just freezes (and no entry is recorded in the log file).
Before choosing, Preview and Play work just fine.

[antroboy]

Update: the error window has a title that wasn't there before:

"Error during creating a list of codecs"

and then inside the window the "Unknown exception code (80004005)" error.

It then gives me a warning that the file will be very large because a compression
codec was not selected (I have the FULL K-lite codec pack installed, and it works
perfectly with Adobe After Effects and VLC player). If I click "Start" anyway, the
program crashes.

Interestingly, even though Video Enhancer is the only program running, I can
see several FFDShow icons (blue FFA and red FFV) in the bottom right taskbar.

I don't know what else to do to get this thing running...

[Dee Mon]

Well, some codec in your system crashes when MS DirectShow tries to enumerate them.
This might be ffdshow (it's infamous for being quite unstable) and might be some codec installed with After Effects.