jwvanderbeck
11-29-2000, 06:49 AM
Hello all,
I think alot of people are having this problem with the latest beta. Windows Media Encoder 7 isn't starting up properly. There are many reasons this may be happening to you, but if it worked fine in the previous version, but not in the latest beta, then your problem may be because of the selected video device.
This is a workaround that may or may not work for you. Forewarning, it takes at least a little amount of computer knowledge
1) Run windows media encoder manually. You can do this quickly by simply going to START->RUN and typing in "wmenc"
2) In most cases you will see the "Welcome to Windows Media Encoder" box. Click the option that says "open an existing encoding session"
2A) If you did not get the "Welcome" box, and instead were brought directly into the encoder, click on the SESSION menu and choose OPEN
3) Browse to where you installed SnapStream (Defaults to c:\program files\snapstream PVS) and choose the WME directory.
4) You will see a list of all the profiles you can select from within Snapstream. Choose the one you use to record and open it up
5) When you open the profile, you will most likely get an error about the output name being incorrect, and that it will be renamed. Just click OK, its not important.
6) Click on the SESSION menu and then choose PROPERTIES
7) This will pop up a box allowing you to edit the session. The first box you will be shown is where the input device is selected. This is what you need to change. Click on CHANGE, and then from the VIDEO box, selecte the CORRECT device instead of DEFAULT.
8) Click OK to close that box, then OK to close the other one.
9) Click on the SESSION menu then choose SAVE AS (Very important to choose SAVE AS so you don't overwrite the original) and save the profile with any name you want..just something you can remember
10) You can quickly check to see if this will work before leaving the encoder. Simply click on start in the lower right hand corner and see if it starts capturing or gives some errors. If it gives errors, try selecting another device back in step 7. Sometimes even with only one capture card you will have 2 or more devices to choose from. If you have tried them all and still errors, then you have something else wrong and this workaround won't fix it.
11) Click STOP to stop the test and then exit the encoder.
12) Open wordpad
13) Click on FILE then OPEN and browse to the same directory as in step 3
14) Click where it says "Files of Type:" and select "All Documents (*.*)" so that you can see the profiles. Open up the new profile you just created (not the one snapstream uses)
15) The profile is in plain text. You want to find the line for your video driver. It should be near the beginning of the file, and looks something like this:
<Source Type="WMENC_VIDEO"
Scheme="device"
InputSource="ATI Multimedia Video Driver"
Repeat="yes" >
<UserData >
</UserData>
</Source>
16) You want the line that says "InputSource". Highlight what is between the quotes in that line, and press CTRL-INS to copy it.
17) Click on FILE then OPEN again and this time open the profile that you use in SnapStream.
18) Find the exact same line in this profile. This one will say:
InputSource="Default_Audio_Device"
19) Highlight the text inside the quotes again and this time press SHIFT-INS to paste. Then save the file. Just click FILE then SAVE
20) The end result should be that you copied the specific driver from the other profile into the one snapstream uses.
Good Luck! I hope this works for some of you. It sure made all the difference for me.
I think alot of people are having this problem with the latest beta. Windows Media Encoder 7 isn't starting up properly. There are many reasons this may be happening to you, but if it worked fine in the previous version, but not in the latest beta, then your problem may be because of the selected video device.
This is a workaround that may or may not work for you. Forewarning, it takes at least a little amount of computer knowledge
1) Run windows media encoder manually. You can do this quickly by simply going to START->RUN and typing in "wmenc"
2) In most cases you will see the "Welcome to Windows Media Encoder" box. Click the option that says "open an existing encoding session"
2A) If you did not get the "Welcome" box, and instead were brought directly into the encoder, click on the SESSION menu and choose OPEN
3) Browse to where you installed SnapStream (Defaults to c:\program files\snapstream PVS) and choose the WME directory.
4) You will see a list of all the profiles you can select from within Snapstream. Choose the one you use to record and open it up
5) When you open the profile, you will most likely get an error about the output name being incorrect, and that it will be renamed. Just click OK, its not important.
6) Click on the SESSION menu and then choose PROPERTIES
7) This will pop up a box allowing you to edit the session. The first box you will be shown is where the input device is selected. This is what you need to change. Click on CHANGE, and then from the VIDEO box, selecte the CORRECT device instead of DEFAULT.
8) Click OK to close that box, then OK to close the other one.
9) Click on the SESSION menu then choose SAVE AS (Very important to choose SAVE AS so you don't overwrite the original) and save the profile with any name you want..just something you can remember
10) You can quickly check to see if this will work before leaving the encoder. Simply click on start in the lower right hand corner and see if it starts capturing or gives some errors. If it gives errors, try selecting another device back in step 7. Sometimes even with only one capture card you will have 2 or more devices to choose from. If you have tried them all and still errors, then you have something else wrong and this workaround won't fix it.
11) Click STOP to stop the test and then exit the encoder.
12) Open wordpad
13) Click on FILE then OPEN and browse to the same directory as in step 3
14) Click where it says "Files of Type:" and select "All Documents (*.*)" so that you can see the profiles. Open up the new profile you just created (not the one snapstream uses)
15) The profile is in plain text. You want to find the line for your video driver. It should be near the beginning of the file, and looks something like this:
<Source Type="WMENC_VIDEO"
Scheme="device"
InputSource="ATI Multimedia Video Driver"
Repeat="yes" >
<UserData >
</UserData>
</Source>
16) You want the line that says "InputSource". Highlight what is between the quotes in that line, and press CTRL-INS to copy it.
17) Click on FILE then OPEN again and this time open the profile that you use in SnapStream.
18) Find the exact same line in this profile. This one will say:
InputSource="Default_Audio_Device"
19) Highlight the text inside the quotes again and this time press SHIFT-INS to paste. Then save the file. Just click FILE then SAVE
20) The end result should be that you copied the specific driver from the other profile into the one snapstream uses.
Good Luck! I hope this works for some of you. It sure made all the difference for me.