Virb Edit will run once only, then have to reinstall just to run it again

Hi Garmin,

I am having this weird problem with Virb Edit.

The app will run once after I install it. When I close it, then launch again (within the same logon, or after logging out and in again, or after a reboot), the cursor will have a the loading icon then nothing. I checked task manager, nothing.

I had to uninstall, then reinstall again, just to have it running again.

This seems to have started on 5.1.3 and still the same on the latest 5.1.4.

  • Do not get those symptoms on my W10 Laptop upon which I have been able to get 5.1.4 to work. 5.1.3 did not work on this machine - it wouldn't import fresh videos from my VIRB Elite camera.
  • Seems I found the cause of the problem.

    It happened again, Virb Edit will not load. I thought of looking for any logs that may be there so I went to the Program X86 Garmin Virb Edit folder. I sorted the contents to latest to earliest, found that these 2 files were updated when I tried to launch, BUT the file size are both 0 bytes

    avcodec-57.dll
    avformat-57.dll

    What I did next is uninstall, then reinstall Virb Edit again, just like before. But this time before even launching, I saved both files to another folder. Ran Virb Edit, and did videos again.

    Closed the app, the launched again. Again, it happened, it won't launch. The files are both 0 bytes again. I copied back in the 2 files then launched again. Voila, it runs again!

    Any idea why these 2 files are being overwritten, deleted?