[BUG] Cannot find transcoded file

[Lebon14]

Hi there.

I'm using Hybrid 2025.07.27.1 on Windows 11 Pro.

It was working great a few months ago when I had to transcode interlaced huffyuv AVI files to deinterlaced MP4 files. Today, I had to open it up to convert DV AVI files to deinterlaced MP4 files. I changed the bitrate settings for the video from my defaults from last time and... and... I can't find the trasncoded file! Visiting where I wanted to save it, there's no file! They aren't saved where you need admin rights. Tried to run Hybrid as admin but it seems Hybrid forces me to open it in regular user mode.

So, after trying that, I tried re-encoding the same shorter DV .avi which I wanted to use to test my settings before comitting to the hour-long ones (transcode takes around as long as the video itself). And it didn't happen again. The file appeared once it was transcoded. What?

You could say "Well, that ended well. Why post?". Maybe trying to find out what exactly is going on to know what to avoid next time. The only thing that I changed between runs is that I didn't force BFF by unchecking "Overwrite input scan to...". In the current working run, I checked it and forced it to bottom-field first (BFF) since it's DV trasnfered through Firewire with Scenalyzer.

So, yeah, more of a "here's heads up" than anything.

If you need more details, let me know.

P.S No errors showed up in the log part of the video. Just said the job finished succesfully. I couldn't tell you what to do to reproduce the issue. I seriously don't.

[Selur]

If you need more details, let me know.

I need more details.

I couldn't tell you what to do to reproduce the issue. I seriously don't.

Then I probably can't help, since I don't know how you configured Hybrid and what really happened.
https://forum.selur.net/thread-3.html explains on how to create a debug output.
If you find a way to reproduce your problem, create a debug output of it and I can probably help explain the issue.

I'm using Hybrid 2025.07.27.1 on Windows 11 Pro.

Then, in case you have a problem, use the latest release (or better the latest dev).

In case the job (with it's sub-jobs) where you couldn't find the output file still exists, it should list what it did or didn't do and where I created files.

Cu Selur

[Lebon14]

If you need more details, let me know.

I need more details.

I couldn't tell you what to do to reproduce the issue. I seriously don't.

Then I probably can't help, since I don't know how you configured Hybrid and what really happened.
https://forum.selur.net/thread-3.html explains on how to create a debug output.
If you find a way to reproduce your problem, create a debug output of it and I can probably help explain the issue.

I'm using Hybrid 2025.07.27.1 on Windows 11 Pro.

Then, in case you have a problem, use the latest release (or better the latest dev).

In case the job (with it's sub-jobs) where you couldn't find the output file still exists, it should list what it did or didn't do and where I created files.

Cu Selur

I know. I haven't upgraded because I thought I had a working setup _exclusively_ made to handle deinterlacing with demanding clients. Because it worked before today, I adopted the mentality "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". I used to have issues with much older versions of Hybrid where it would show the splashscreen then never actually start.

If it happens again some day, I'll make sure to create a debug output. Because, when I started the program, I changed a few things from my defaults then basically click "transcode" where the file would be saved in "C:\Users\(Username)\Desktop\FolderName" or root of another non-windows drive (ie. D:\). So, that's why I'm totally lost as to why this even happened.

Another note is that Windows would create a shortcut file to the file in the "Recent" system folder where it creates such shortcuts for created and accessed files. Double-clicking it would say it didn't find the file and prompts if you want to delete the shortcut. I'm still trying to wrap my head as to why this happened at all...