"System.FormatException: The input string format is incorrect"

[thatnerduknow]

"System.FormatException: The input string format is incorrect"

[ThatNerdUKnow]

Strange, I wouldn't think that path would cause a format exception. I'll need to investigate what can cause Xdocument.Load to throw a formatexception

[toutrob]

I have exactly the same error with 2 .mkv files in H264. My Windows is also in French, maybe that's something to do with that?

[ThatNerdUKnow]

The problem seems to be with the part where I'm reading the xml file generated by vmaf to show the results. Could you share a copy of an xml file generated by vmaf-gui? If I remember correctly they should be getting generated in the root directory of the executable

[toutrob]

Yes sure.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lg5cvpzxJwNuusC6OvWlzHWIfLydE7QZ/view?usp=sharing

[ThatNerdUKnow]

One more question, what's the absolute path to that xml file on your drive?

[toutrob]

C:\Users\robin\Downloads\vmaf-gui.2.1.3\Release

[ThatNerdUKnow]

If I force vmaf-gui to skip all processing and load the XML @toutrob provided, it seems to load just fine. That could possibly rule out the formatting of the XML document. I do also wonder if this is a character encoding thing, perhaps the behavior of XDocument.load depends on the locale of the system?

[ThatNerdUKnow]

Okay, I think I've got it. Apparently the french locale uses commas instead of periods to represent decimal points. It looks like I should be able to override the locale that XDocument is using to load the xml file, so I'm going to give that a try.

[ThatNerdUKnow]

@toutrob , can you please try using this release?
https://github.com/ThatNerdUKnow/vmaf-gui/releases/tag/2.1.4

[toutrob]

It works perfectly for me, thank you for your work!