Crash on Windows 1903

[GeertvanHorrik]

Been trying this out, but it crashes. Been debugging a bit, looks like this part is the culprit:

$decoder = AwaitOperation ([Windows.Graphics.Imaging.BitmapDecoder]::CreateAsync($inputStream)) ([Windows.Graphics.Imaging.BitmapDecoder])

Will try to investigate further.

[GeertvanHorrik]

I installed / purchased the correct extensions in the store.

[DavidAnson]

Please share the OS version, command line, and exception details.

[GeertvanHorrik]

I tried catching the exception, but the whole powershell host crashes (so not sure how to get the exception message since the host console disappears).

[GeertvanHorrik]

Command line:

.\ConvertTo-jpg.ps1 "c:\users\some path with spaces\some file\something.heic"

[DavidAnson]

This script tries to catch and display any managed-code exceptions that occur while running. If something is bypassing that and/or crashing PowerShell, maybe there’s an issue with the codec or Windows configuration. Have you tried opening that image in Windows Photo viewer? Or converting it on another machine?

[GeertvanHorrik]

I can open it fine in the Photos app. Maybe I will investigate this by converting it to a C# (UWP) console app tomorrow to see why it crashes.

[DavidAnson]

Great idea!

[GeertvanHorrik]

On my laptop with vs 2019, it works (as UWP). Testing script alone on this laptop.

[GeertvanHorrik]

Says "unsupported", let me check if I need the codec on this laptop as well (not only the photo viewer extension).

[GeertvanHorrik]

Also installing HEVC Video Extensions from the store.

[GeertvanHorrik]

Here are the exception details in powershell:

System.Management.Automation.MethodInvocationException: Exception calling "Wait" with "0" argument(s): "One or more errors occurred." ---> System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. ---> System.ArgumentException: Value does not fall within the expected range.
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ThrowIfExceptional(Boolean includeTaskCanceledExceptions)
   at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Wait(Int32 millisecondsTimeout, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at CallSite.Target(Closure , CallSite , Object )
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.Management.Automation.ExceptionHandlingOps.CheckActionPreference(FunctionContext funcContext, Exception exception)
   at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.ActionCallInstruction`2.Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
   at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.EnterTryCatchFinallyInstruction.Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
   at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.EnterTryCatchFinallyInstruction.Run(InterpretedFrame frame)

[GeertvanHorrik]

Looks like a completely different error on this laptop, this is the code:

            try
            {
                # Get SoftwareBitmap from input file
                Write-Host 1
                $inputFile = AwaitOperation ([Windows.Storage.StorageFile]::GetFileFromPathAsync($file)) ([Windows.Storage.StorageFile])
                Write-Host 2
                $inputFolder = AwaitOperation ($inputFile.GetParentAsync()) ([Windows.Storage.StorageFolder])
                Write-Host 3
                $inputStream = AwaitOperation ($inputFile.OpenReadAsync()) ([Windows.Storage.Streams.IRandomAccessStreamWithContentType])
                Write-Host 4
                $decoder = AwaitOperation ([Windows.Graphics.Imaging.BitmapDecoder]::CreateAsync($inputStream)) ([Windows.Graphics.Imaging.BitmapDecoder])
                Write-Host 5
            }
            catch
            {
                # Ignore non-image files
                Write-Host " [Unsupported]"
                Write-Host $_.Exception

                continue
            }

Output is:

1
 [Unsupported]
System.Management.Automation.MethodInvocationException: Exception calling "Wait" with "0" argument(s): "One or more errors occurred." ---> System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. ---> System.ArgumentException: Value does not fall within the expected range.
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ThrowIfExceptional(Boolean includeTaskCanceledExceptions)
   at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Wait(Int32 millisecondsTimeout, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
   at CallSite.Target(Closure , CallSite , Object )
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at System.Management.Automation.ExceptionHandlingOps.CheckActionPreference(FunctionContext funcContext, Exception exception)
   at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.ActionCallInstruction`2.Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
   at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.EnterTryCatchFinallyInstruction.Run(InterpretedFrame frame)
   at System.Management.Automation.Interpreter.EnterTryCatchFinallyInstruction.Run(InterpretedFrame frame)

On my other machine it gets to 4...

[DavidAnson]

Failing after 1 above is weird - StorageFile is built-in and has nothing to do with the extra codecs. Maybe this is a Windows 1903 problem? (I know of other .NET scenarios they broke from similar reports.) If so, I’ll find out after I upgrade because I use this script every week. Until then, sorry for the trouble! Nobody else has reported this issue so far.

[GeertvanHorrik]

No problem at all, just wanted to report this. I am using CopyTrans HEIC for Windows at the moment, which you can also call as command line.

I needed it because I was working on a video / photo diary (see https://github.com/GeertvanHorrik/DiaryGenerator). Maybe in the future, if this script works again, I will replace it again. Would save another dependency users will have to install at the moment.

[DavidAnson]

The issue of failing after step 1 should be fixed by https://github.com/DavidAnson/ConvertTo-Jpeg/commit/db8f7d0fd6b448c85ca6098ce2fff341bfc0e17e.