Avi + Explorer problem - XP

[Black Hawk]

When I enter a folder which has a certain movie that it's in 2 segments, explorer crashes. I can only view from inside a program when I'm gonna choose it, or from run. Even if I join the files, it crashes. The files do work well. Doesn't matter what folder I put the video in, it crashes. Do I have to get a program to repair it or edit it?

[mmonnin]

You dont happen to have all the details listed in the thread. Like size, resolution, bitrate and stuff showing up in the folder do you? I know that takes all my cycles when I had that on once. And the info could be wrong or something if you split it.

[Spinner]

This may not be relevant, but I on occasion have also had problems with explorer crashing, in my case when it tries to display a thumbnail preview of a movie file. I found it only did this when I didn't have the necessary codec installed for it to run. Once I installed the codec for it, it stopped crashing when I opened up the folder it was in.

[Black Hawk]

mmonnin said
You dont happen to have all the details listed in the thread. Like size, resolution, bitrate and stuff showing up in the folder do you? I know that takes all my cycles when I had that on once. And the info could be wrong or something if you split it. No, I have it only displaying the thumbnail although thinking about it, I don't really think I need thumbnails for a movie folder sine I already know what movie they are =/.

The file already came split.


Spinner said
This may not be relevant, but I on occasion have also had problems with explorer crashing, in my case when it tries to display a thumbnail preview of a movie file. I found it only did this when I didn't have the necessary codec installed for it to run. Once I installed the codec for it, it stopped crashing when I opened up the folder it was in. Necesarry codecs are installed and I already saw the movie. It only happens with the thumbnail. I would refresh the thumbnail but it crashes when selecting it :(

[mmonnin]

Does it crash it the folder was ina different mode, like just a list of files or small pic of file type/ext.

[Black Hawk]

Nope. Only in thumbnail view.

[Spinner]

Try deleting the thumb.ini (or whatever it is) to refresh it. You'll need to change the folder settings so you can view the system files so you can see it.

I can't think what else it could be.

[Black Hawk]

It doesn't even get to create the thumbnail.

[mmonnin]

Blackhawk said
Nope. Only in thumbnail view.

Well dont use that view. Simple as that.

[Black Hawk]

Fixed it. Had to use a diffrent build of the codec (XviD).

[Pekinight]

Hello,
Sorry for my bad english i'm from switzerland

Windows XP want get info from .avi and if u have a lot of .avi it take several time to analyse and if ur .avi are corrupted or incomplete(because download with e-mule or another p2p) a lot of time.

go to regedit HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler\
Delete the default key and it's OK.

U loose some info but u know how long lasts your film and if is a divx or xvid no ?

[ahmadf14]

When I enter a folder which has a certain movie that it's in 2 segments, explorer crashes. I can only view from inside a program when I'm gonna choose it, or from run. Even if I join the files, it crashes. The files do work well. Doesn't matter what folder I put the video in, it crashes. Do I have to get a program to repair it or edit it?


Hey i have a solution to your problem, i was experiencing the same problem
Explorer seems to have trouble generating an image for the avi files so what i had to do was just make a REGistry change and that seems to have solved internet explorer from crashing.

simply make a text file and enter

REGSVR32 /U SHMEDIA.DLL


in it and then rename it to filename.bat
when u run that file it should take care of it for you.