PProheadless.exe

Question

Hello,
first post here.  I'm running Adobe Production Suite CS4, v. 4.01.
System specs.: Asus P6t Deluxe v2, i7 processor, 12 gb ram, matrox rt.x2, 4 internal sata drives at 250 gb each, 2 tb raid 0 for video.  Window Vista Ultimate 64 bit.
I'm also encountering this same issue on a seperate computer:
specs.: Asus P5E3 Deluxe, 8 GB ram, quad core processor at 2.67 mghz, 4 internal sata drives, 1 tb raid 0 for video.  Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit.  Again, running Adobe CS4 Production Premium.
The issue: from Premiere Pro export uncompressed avi through Adobe Media Encoder, 30fps, progressive.  The timeline contains simple lower thirds and an avi.  Media Encoder will begin the coding process and about 1/4 of the way through the timeline this error will appear:  "PProheadless.exe has stopped working."  I have already searched this forum concerning this issue and did find one entry that stated a resolution ... Edit>Preferences>General, and then check "optimize the render=memory."  This did not resolve the issue.  I also have Windows Vista running fast with the bare essentials and have virtual memory set for efficient operation.  Anyway, it would seem with 12 GB of ram that Media Encoder would have enough to work with.  I have used CS4 for several months and at first the PProheadless.exe never appeared.  I'm scratching my head as to why now.
Is anyone else encountering this issue with AME?  Suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
thanks,
Cliff

Answer 1

Dear all,
I have read very carefully this thread (and a few others), I have tried the solution described ... but nothing seems to work and EMA still crash, won't encode and I get the "PProHeadless.exe has caused an error ..." message.
I use Premiere Pro CS4 on a Windows Vista 64bits (Home Premium), i7 Core. I have installed the latest updates for both Premiere and AME.
For weeks, it worked perfectly, then something odd haapened: for some sequences, Premiere would encode perfectly for some, AME would stall very fast. No erroe message, just that after few second (between 2 and 4), it just stopped, as if the encoding was finished although it never stopped. Puzzled, I re-installed Premiere (and AME) .. and now I m getting the "PProHeadless.exe has caused an error ..." crash everytime I m encoding. Extremely frustrating...
I have tried few solutions described in this thread, notably
- Open Task Manager , go to Affinity and reduce the number of CPU PProHeadless.exe can work on - it was adviced to reduce it to just 2, did not work. Also reduce it to just one, did not work either. By looking carefully at the task manager, I saw taht also I ve set PProHeadless.exe to work only on CPU 0, the number of CPU Task manager said it was working was moving from 0 top 2. Strange..yet it was still a small number, and, yes the crash happened again.
- Dear all,
I have read very carefully this thread (and a few others), I have tried the solution described ... but nothing seems to work and EMA still crash, won't encode and I get the "PProHeadless.exe has caused an error ..." message.
I use Premiere Pro CS4 on a Windows Vista 64bits (Home Premium), i7 Core. I have installed the latest updates for both Premiere and AME.
For weeks, it worked perfectly, then something odd haapened: for some sequences, Premiere would encode perfectly for some, AME would stall very fast. No erroe message, just that after few second (between 2 and 4), it just stopped, as if the encoding was finished although it never stopped. Puzzled, I re-installed Premiere (and AME) .. and now I m getting the "PProHeadless.exe has caused an error ..." crash everytime I m encoding. Extremely frustrating...
I have tried few solutions described in this thread, notably
- Open Task Manager , go to Affinity and reduce the number of CPU PProHeadless.exe can work on - it was adviced to reduce it to just 2, did not work. Also reduce it to just one, did not work either. By looking carefully at the task manager, I saw taht also I ve set PProHeadless.exe to work only on CPU 0, the number of CPU Task manager said it was working was moving from 0 top 2. Strange..yet it was still a small number, and, yes the crash happened again.
- I have also used another solution found somewhere else, iei Select in PPro: edition >preference > general> , optimize the render = MEMORY  and I also inscrease the asio memory buffer to 4096 and selected "32 bit" to avoid the "jkl" bug
Nothing works...
I have noticed that one participant, Ciro, solved the issue by "In the Windows' Error report I clicked the 'details' button and found that it pointed to - nvoglnt.dll, which, after some 'googling' pointed to Nvidia graphics drivers. I downloaded a nvoglnt.dll file, and replaced the one I had in Windows\system32."  
I tried the same, my error message pointed to ImageRenderer.dll which seems to be a file used by Photoshop.. Dont know why Photoshop is linked to this (maybe because the still pictures I have were trimmed down and turned into japegs in Photoshop??). Anyway I m a bit weary of replacing a Photoshop file by something of the same name found on Internet...
Would you recommend to do that?
I m a bit desesparate, any help is more than welcomed!
- I have noticed that one participan of a similar forum solved the issue by "In the Windows' Error report I clicked the 'details' button and found that it pointed to - nvoglnt.dll, which, after some 'googling' pointed to Nvidia graphics drivers. I downloaded a nvoglnt.dll file, and replaced the one I had in Windows\system32."   
I tried the same, my error message pointed to ImageRenderer.dll which seems to be a file used by Photoshop.. Dont know why Photoshop is linked to this (maybe because the still pictures I have were trimmed down and turned into japegs in Photoshop??). Anyway I m a bit weary of replacing a Photoshop file by something of the same name found on Internet...
Would you recommend to do that?
I m a bit desesparate, any help is more than welcomed!
Thanks to all
Eric- -