Object reference not set to an instance of an object error

[turkarican]

Neither of the decoders work. Well thanks for all your help. If I get it to work, I will post here.

[Magellan]

I did note the FILTER_TV_AUDIO misspelling above, sorry/

I looked quickly at lastgraph with graphedit. The lastgraph shows 'Angel USB Crossbar' connected to 'Capture', not "Angel USB MPEG Device' as expected. This should not make a difference though (both work.) What is not correct is that it seems also to ignore 'FILTER_ENCODER=Angel USB Encoder'. If in graphedit, I insert this filter, connect the 'in' pins to either 'Capture' or 'Angel USb MPEG Device', connect the 'MPEG Out' pin to the 'MPEG-2 Demultipler', it plays fine..

In the GBPVR.exe-native.log I see it does not attempt to load FILTER_ENCODER but does the others, then it replaces FILTER_CAPTURE as above. Then it states:

FindFilterByName failed to locate filter: Encoder pass-through.

I enclosed are the two graphs, any comments?

[sub]

For it to use an encoder filter, the definition in direct.ini has to have 'BLACKBIRD=1'

[Magellan]

That did it for me! Here is the updated direct.ini section, with the i2s/656 reversal confusion. I noticed graphedit still uses filters Capture & Encoder instead of Angel USB MPEG Device & Angel USB Encoder, whatever?

[Angel USB MPEG Device]
INIT_MODE=DEFAULT
INIT_MSP=0
SUPPORTS_FM_RADIO=0
BLACKBIRD=1
CONEXANT=0
FILTER_TV_TUNER=Angel USB TvTuner
FILTER_TV_AUDIO=Angel USB TvAudio
FILTER_CROSSBAR=Angel USB Crossbar
FILTER_CAPTURE=Angel USB MPEG Device
FILTER_ENCODER=Angel USB Encoder
PIN_TVTUNER_ANALOG_VIDEO_OUT=Analog Video
PIN_TVTUNER_ANALOG_AUDIO_OUT=Analog Audio
PIN_TVAUDIO_TV_AUDIO_IN=TVAudio In
PIN_TVAUDIO_TV_AUDIO_OUT=TVAudio out
PIN_CROSSBAR_VIDEO_TUNER_IN=Video Tuner In
PIN_CROSSBAR_AUDIO_TUNER_IN=Audio Tuner In
PIN_CROSSBAR_VIDEO_DECODER_OUT=Video Decoder Out
PIN_CROSSBAR_AUDIO_DECODER_OUT=Audio Decoder Out
PIN_CAPTURE_ANALOG_VIDEO_IN=Analog Video In
PIN_CAPTURE_ANALOG_AUDIO_IN=Analog Audio In
PIN_CAPTURE_PREVIEW_AUDIO_OUT=Virtual Video In
PIN_CAPTURE_I2S_OUT=Virtual Audio Out
PIN_CAPTURE_656_OUT=Virtual Video Out
PIN_ENCODER_I2S_IN=Virtual Video In
PIN_ENCODER_656_IN=Virtual Audio In
PIN_ENCODER_OUT=MPEG Out
PIN_WRITER_INPUT_IN=Input

[sub]

That did it for me! Here is the updated direct.ini section

Ok, thanks. I'll add it to the master file.

I noticed graphedit still uses filters Capture & Encoder instead of Angel USB MPEG Device & Angel USB Encoder, whatever?

Thats normal, it can use any logical name it wants when you add it to the graph. Its convenient for me if I know the encoder filter is always called 'encoder' etc.