i'm using FU since a while, and i find it a great software. so first of all tnx to the developers
i experimented always problems with external codecs, and i find a serious problems, cause codecs (expecially divx and x264) get updated quite often.
in version 2.6 i used an external xvid codec (1.1.3 stable) with no problems at all, but when i tried to use an updated x64 codec Fu crashed every time. i could not find any reason to the problem, cause the last line of the log file said "codec opened successfully", then anything else.
now in 2.8 only external divx works, both xvid and x264 are broken.
the program itself works fine, the encoding seems to go, different settings have impact on encoding speed so they ARE recognized, xvid debug window is shown, codec "statfile" are created and used correctly... BUT the output file is simply empty.
the avi producted has the size expected, but there is no video and no audio at all. opening the file with windows media player gives no result. opening it with media player classic creates the windows, with the correct aspect ratio and correct lenght of the movie, but ther movie is "nothing". if i try to open the file with gspot (a program that gives info about an avi file and codec used) reports that lenght and fourcc are set correctly but the avi contains only EMPTY frames.
with internal codecs everyting is fine.
using an mkv container produces the same results.
my computer is a dual AMD, with windows vista ultimate 32 bit.
i can provide of course any logfile, and even a saple of the "empty" avi, and my little coding ability to help solving this annoying problem.
for the rest, keep up the great job you're doing