XnView Software

Okay, here's the deal. I'm running a 32bit Windows 7 machine, but that doesn't matter. What does matter is this; I was unable to run XnView MP 2.1.

I'm sure this is a familliar sight by now;

XnViewMP\xnview.exe

The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line-sxstrace.exe tool for more detail.

Because I cannot attach the text file, I shall dump the sxstrace for your viewing pleasure;

Found
Microsoft.VC80.OpenMP

Not Found
Microsoft.VC80.OpenMP.mui


Reference is Microsoft.VC80.OpenMP,processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="8.0.50727.762".
Definition is Microsoft.VC80.OpenMP,processorArchitecture="x86",publicKeyToken="1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b",type="win32",version="8.0.50727.42".

I cut around the meat of the problem. This is the important information in the trace.

If you replace every version="8.0.50727.42" with version="8.0.50727.762" in both xnview.exe.manifest and Microsoft.VC80.OpenMP.manifest, the program will run.

I hope that this will help in future releases

Trying MP 0.21 on XP SP3, I observed a systematic crash on a directory with .nef, .tif and .XMP files

Thanks to the trick provided by Valesk, the program no longer crashes.

Hope this can help

André

gaaned92 wrote:Trying MP 0.21 on XP SP3, I observed a systematic crash on a directory with .nef, .tif and .XMP files

Could you send me files with crash?

After analysis of directory, I found the offending file available here.

This file was obtained with following process :
- creation of tif file with RawTherapee
- creation of XMP sidecar file with exiftool (exiftool -o %d%f.xmp DIR)
- import of sidecar file inside tif file with exiftoolGUI
This was done to verify that Ptlens can read XMP data (specifically the focal length).

I can use this file with PTLENS, exiftool, Irfanview and GIMP. Gimp indicates that one XMP PS data is not valid but is able to open the file.
So I think that the structure of the metadata is valid.

nevertheless, I wonder why the above trick suppresses the crash.

André

There is no more crash with XnViewMP 0.25 with file containing XMP metadata
Thank you
André