Got some extra time on your hands? Want to help me repro a bug?

Background:

I have been using Apple Quicktime Pro to transcode movies from my Panasonic Lumix digital camera into H.264 format. It has the following drawbacks: 1. it is slow. 2. It sometimes crashes very hard in a very bad way (i.e., causing the PC to fully lock or reboot).

Someone on this BBS suggested MPEG Streamclip as an alternative H.264 encoder. So I tried it. It solves problem 1, but it seems that problem 2 still happens to me.

Since MPEG Streamclip requires Apple Quicktime to be installed in order to work, I'm wondering if the crash is a quicktime bug.

I have a file with which I can reliably reproduce the crash, and I'm wondering if it happens to anyone else's system. If someone else besides me can repro it, I may be able to narrow it down to a Quicktime bug or some other issue that I can get help with from the companies in question.

Wanna try it? Here are my repro steps:


Install Apple Quicktime Player for Windows version 7.1.5. I use the version without itunes, but I don't know if that's a factor.
Download and unzip Mpeg Streamclip for Windows version 1.1 from http://www.squared5.com/.
Download my repro file http://www.geekhackfilk.com/temp/P1060092.MOV (231 MB)

Open MPEG Streamclip.
File, open files.
Select P1060092.MOV.
File, Export to Quicktime.

Settings:
Compression: H.264 Encoder
Quality: 100%
Multipass and B-Frames: Checked.
Limit Data Rate: Checked, Limit it to 1024kbps. Resulting file size should say ~24 MB.
Sound: MPEG Layer 3, Mono, Auto, 128 kbps.
Frame Size: 640x480 (unscaled).
Frame Blending and Better Downscaling: Checked.
Interlaced Scaling and Deinterlace Video: Unchecked.
Field Dominance: Upper Field First.
Rotation: No
Zoom: 100%
X/Y:1
Center: 0,0
Cropping: Unchecked
Fast Start: Checked

Click on MAKE MOVIE.

Change the file name by adding _1 to the end so that it doesn't overwrite the original.

Click on SAVE.

Make sure nothing else is running as you are doing this encode. If I'm right, this is gonna crash your system hard, early in the second pass, at some point between 8-10% through the second pass. Be prepared for that.

Thanks in advance to anyone who's willing to try this!