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After choosing to start the encoder, I'm getting an error E3: Encoder could not be started. An atempt to acquire a network resource failed. Any ideas?

[gprime]

GSpot tells me my video is DivX 5.0. I have the newest version of DivX installed.

Windows media Encoder 9 tells me that it is already installed, and I can only repair or remove it. So I selected repair. Didn't make a different.

Windows Media Player 10 install tells me that a newer version of WMP is already installed (10 is already installed).

I really want to get this to work since the last 360 transcoder thing didn't work for me either. This one seems a bit more promising. I'm not sure what else to do other than report the error I got.

[GazzaS]

Hi,

Rather than posting response after response on this forum, please email me at the support email address on my web site. Please provided full information on your problems and I'll try my best to sort them out.

Once a solution has been found I will add a trouble shooting area to the help documents and also post it here.

Just a quickie: the  "E3: Encoder could not be started. An attempt to acquire a network resource failed." error means that the port 8080 (or what every port you have used) is unavailable. Try setting a new unique port number like 8182 and in the windows firewall settings make sure that this port is available to accept and send data.

Cheers,

GazzaS

[alwaysZeroHour]

Hey
Love the menus and PAUSE
But I cant get it working here, I get the error

QUOTE

E3:An attempt to acquire a network resource failed.

Any ideas?
Just wiped all codecs off and reinstalled them, I can run it in windows media encoder okay.

Gary btw I think you should post here with fix's as its indexed so people can find solutions faster, that or wiki it

Keep up the good work

[xoxoxbox]

Hi Gary.

I'm getting the same two errors mentioned above.

First, upon boot up of my MC PC, I get the unhandled exception in MCEVideoEncoder.  I copied and pasted the error details below.

Occasionally, I do NOT get this error message, but even when I do not, if I run the extender through my 360, select info-->more-->start/stop MCE Encoder, I get the following message:

"
MCEVIDEOENCODER
The encoder is .
"

I have had Media Player 10 and Encodr 9 installed for various purposes for a very long time now.  I also have all the neccesary codecs to play the videos on my PC (they play fine through the media center ui on the PC itself).  I also have .Net framework 2.0 installed on my machine.  I wonder if having 2.0 might be causing the first exception in some way.

It sounds like you have built some assumption in to your managed code that is not true for many of us, and also that the app doesn't properly support all acceptable codecs.

Below is excpetion code:

************** Exception Text **************
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at MCEVideoEncoder.FrmMCEEncoder.notifyIcon1_MouseMove(Object sender, MouseEventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.OnMouseMove(MouseEventArgs e)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.WmMouseMove(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIcon.WndProc(Message& msg)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NotifyIconNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m)
   at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
    Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
    Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.2032
    CodeBase: file:///c:/windows.0/MS.net/framework/v1.1.4322/mscorlib.dll
----------------------------------------
MCEVideoEncoder
    Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
    CodeBase: file:///C:/Program%20Files/MCE/MCEVideoEncoder/MCEVideoEncoder.exe
----------------------------------------
System.Windows.Forms
    Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
    Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.2032
    CodeBase: file:///c:/windows.0/assembly/gac/system.windows.forms/1.0.5000.0__b77a5c561934e089/system.windows.forms.dll
----------------------------------------
System
    Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
    Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.2032
    CodeBase: file:///c:/windows.0/assembly/gac/system/1.0.5000.0__b77a5c561934e089/system.dll
----------------------------------------
System.Drawing
    Assembly Version: 1.0.5000.0
    Win32 Version: 1.1.4322.2032
    CodeBase: file:///c:/windows.0/assembly/gac/system.drawing/1.0.5000.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a/system.drawing.dll
----------------------------------------
Interop.WMEncoderLib
    Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
    Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
    CodeBase: file:///c:/windows.0/assembly/gac/interop.wmencoderlib/1.0.0.0__229d026026e15d8f/interop.wmencoderlib.dll
----------------------------------------

[alwaysZeroHour]

fixed my problem.
Any uk users with sky by broadband will need to stop a service called KService as it messes it up.
Just create a batch with:
net stop KService
It will then shut it down when you want easily. It auto starts when sky by broadband is launched.

Cheers

[GazzaS]

Hi Guys,

Here is some info on the problems your having:

1) E3:An attempt to acquire a network resource failed.

This means that the Encoder cannot create a stream on the port that has been set. This could be that you have another application like a web server using that port. Simply open the windows client MCEVideoEncoder and using "Tools" - "Settings" - "Change Port..." set the port to another number (e.g. 8182). The application should now work OK. In the new version I will try and make the messages a little more helpful and I will place troubleshooting at the end of the help docs.

2) The encoder is.

This error means that it could not even see the Windows Client application or the config files (hence the lack of error code). Make sure you have the Windows client started (should see TV icon in system tray) and that you can create a stream with the windows client without problems. Also make sure that you have the following directory "%shared documents%\MCEVideoEncoder\" and that it has a file in there called "config". Again I will make the error message more helpful in the new version.

3) Unhandled exception in MCEVideoEncoder.

Some times you may see an "Unhandled exception in MCEVideoEncoder" message or system crash when the MCEVideoEncoder windows client first loads. This is a known issue and will be fixed on the new version (released very soon). Basically, this is caused id you click on the TV icon before the config file could be loaded. Make sure that the config file is in the "%shared documents%\MCEVideoEncoder\"  folder and that the application has loaded for at least two seconds before you double click on the TV icon. If the application loads with a Windows log in then make that everything has finished loading before you double click on the TV icon.

4) Class not registered.

This exception is thrown back directly from the Windows Media Encoder and Windows Media framework. Make sure you have Windows Media Player 10 and Windows Media Encoder 9 installed. Also make sure that any codecs you are using (use GSpot codec info app) are installed and that you have done a fresh reboot of the system.

I will be adding these items as troubleshooting guide on my help docs.

I hope this helps.

GazzaS

[xoxoxbox]

QUOTE(GazzaS @ Mar 27 2006, 10:19 AM)

2) The encoder is.

This error means that it could not even see the Windows Client application or the config files (hence the lack of error code). Make sure you have the Windows client started (should see TV icon in system tray) and that you can create a stream with the windows client without problems. Also make sure that you have the following directory "%shared documents%\MCEVideoEncoder\" and that it has a file in there called "config". Again I will make the error message more helpful in the new version.

3) Unhandled exception in MCEVideoEncoder.

Some times you may see an "Unhandled exception in MCEVideoEncoder" message or system crash when the MCEVideoEncoder windows client first loads. This is a known issue and will be fixed on the new version (released very soon). Basically, this is caused id you click on the TV icon before the config file could be loaded. Make sure that the config file is in the "%shared documents%\MCEVideoEncoder\"  folder and that the application has loaded for at least two seconds before you double click on the TV icon. If the application loads with a Windows log in then make that everything has finished loading before you double click on the TV icon.

I noted that both of these tasked me with looking in "%shared documents%\MCEVideoEncoder\" and sure enough the path didn't exist.  Or rather, the path did not exist in the right place.  

You are assuming the path should be "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\MCEVideoEncoder" but many of us dual boot or otherwise have more than one OS on our system.  As a result, my Media Center OS has the directory in "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users.WINDOWS.0\Documents\MCEVideoEncoder".  

When the application installed, it installed it's files to the more typical directory (All Users), but when it was looking for them it looked in the right place (All Users.WINDOWS.0) and couldn't find what it was looking for.  This also prevented settings changes from being saved properly because the directory did not exist, and instead it failed silently.

Fixing the path during install is probably sufficient, but you probably want the app to not fail silently in the case where it can't find/create its own config file.

[xoxoxbox]

After copying and pasting the MCEVideoEncoder directory to the Windows.0 path.  I no longer get the "The encoder is ." error.  The encoding seems to start without error.  The problem is now that I can not play the stream.  When I choose to Play, the Media Center spinning wait icon appears and rotates endlessly and the video never starts.    

[DisizDream]

I had the same error, "the encoder is." message.
The installation program was copying the configuration files in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\MCEVideoEncoder instead of the path of my system which is D:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\MCEVideoEncoder. So I Hexedit the installer to change the C:\ in D:\ and now it works great. xoxoxbox I have the same problem than you on some videos (the Media Center spinning wait icon appears and rotates endlessly and the video never starts), but not on others, probably a codec issue. Try other videos you'll see it works great.

This post has been edited by DisizDream: Mar 27 2006, 06:41 PM

[kazaaboy]

Hi,

Trying this out with original xbox....Followed directions as outlined....Using xbox as an extender with XBMC latest...Downloaded and installed xbox360 software....When I select start/Stop, I receive message.."E1: Interface is not registered."  On the windows server, the MCE Video Encoder displays the correct file selected from the extender..So I manually selected start on the windows MCE Video Encoder and then select play on the extender..it plays!! I just cannot start/stop from the extender..Any suggestions? Can it work with original xbox?

This post has been edited by kazaaboy: Mar 28 2006, 12:24 AM

[GazzaS]

Hi Guys,

Sorry to here you are still having problems

I know that the install assumes c:\documents & settings\all users\documents as the required folder. This will be fixed in the new version.... released after my house move is complete The issue is caused by a lack of a environmental variable for this folder in the MS .NET setup system

As a work around for this issue take the files that you find in c:\documents & settings\all users\documents\MCEVideoEncoder folder and copy them into the correct location.

Regarding the Playing of the stream producing a constant wait image.... basically this means that the MCE player can't see the stream. MCEVideoEncoder tries to open the stream at http:\\machinename:port\. Make sure that you can play the created stream from normal media player using this address.

Also regarding the old Xbox as an extender.... I have had a few reports that there has been problems with this. In fact even basic add-ins doesn’t seem to function correctly. at this moment in time, until I can investigate further, I would have to state that MCEVideoEncoder is not supported on the old Xbox.

Thanks for your support, and I will post here as soon as the new version is released. I appreciate all of your help in reporting these issues

GazzaS
 

[GazzaS]

Hi Everyone,

Thought you might be interested that a new version of MCE Video Encoder has been released.  

Check it out at: http://www.lightningware.co.uk

Change log (version 1.0.2.0 beta):

This release resolves some important issues that have been reported.

Issues Fixed:
1) Video stream stopping 10 seconds before end of video.
2) Unhandled Exception when application first loads.
3) Incorrect "Shared Documents" path created during install.
4) "Encoder Is." message showing when "Start/Stop" MCE add-in is activated.

New Features:
1) Use of custom profiles: users can now created their own streaming profiles.
2) Auto-detection of install status: will install all required files and folders when application first starts.
3) Auto-detection of Windows MCE: will prompt for install of Windows MCE add-ins when application first starts.
4) Auto-detection of Windows Media Encoder: will check if encoder is installed and that it is working correctly.
5) More helpful messages added to Windows MCE Add-ins.
6) Troubleshooting area added to help document.
 
Cheers,

Gary

[Kernal69er]

I copied the files to my folder and have changed the port numerous times, disabled my firewall and still get the same error

"E3:An attempt to acquire a network resource failed.".

[nomis1976]

I have installed Divx and XVid on my pc and my mce encoder works for some of my films but not others. As far as i am aware all the films are the same type. I tried to install FFDShow but that stoppped MCE working at all. I uninstalled it and am back where I started. Can anyone help at all ?

Cheers in advance.