AVI file causes crash to desktop

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I downloaded an AVI file. It plays fine as long as I browse to it via some kind of movie player but if I left/right click on it windows explorer crashes to the desktop and I get one of those Microsoft has encountered a problem messages.
What is likely to be the cause of this and is there a way to fix it?
 
Try below may help

Open a command window (Start->Run, type in 'cmd' hit enter)
To remove media preview, type regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll and hit enter
 
yup, do as EYEREX says, it'll greatly speed up media browsing, as it won't load previews for videos, and won't read mp3's to get their birate etc

you'll still get a preview of pictures tho :)
 
Does anyone know why this is happening?

It was fine before and i had done a reinstall and it seems to be doing it again now but i didn't install media player 11 beta this time so it might have been a windows update, seems like a lot more people are getting it too now, we need some official word on this problem!
 
im not sure myself, but i think what EYEREX said could work, but surely this problem shouldn't exist anyway? could it not possibly be a codec problem? as i don't have this problem. However i found if i have a corrupt avi file - or incomplete, then that happens...
 
My problem is that, on the web when i play a movie clip in the webbrowser it alll starts flashing computer starts to crash have to exit iexplorer.exe... to fix the problem.
 
Im now starting to think its either a windows update or a codec problem and likely divx if it is, it mainly happens on incomplete or corrupt videos, why though and whos going to fix it?

Unloading the media preview .dll doesn't fix the problem it just takes it away, theres something wrong somewhere and its probably in the media preview .dll.
 
So, a lot of people are having my problem aswell..

I dont feel bad anymore :p

Erm, what about installing Windows Media player 11 beta will it sort it out?
 
sjohal2006 said:
So, a lot of people are having my problem aswell..

I dont feel bad anymore :p

Erm, what about installing Windows Media player 11 beta will it sort it out?
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No i doubt it and in fact i thought it was the cause of this problem before but its happening without it for me this time.
 
if you do the fix, and want to reverse it, just remove the /u from the run entry and it'll re register the dll, no harm done

its not a recent bug, its been with xp since it was first made. (and will probably be in vista since it has movie previewing -although vista has the option to turn it off)
 
bledd. said:
its not a recent bug, its been with xp since it was first made. (and will probably be in vista since it has movie previewing -although vista has the option to turn it off)
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So why hasn't it been fixed and why has it started happening to lots of computers recently?
 
recently?

..i think not, maybe a lot of people have been downloading similar avi's, i dunno


microsoft's answer is to disable the media preview dll (which has been posted here), its basically not entirely their fault, its the codecs used to create the videos too, they're made in such a way that explorer thinks it has to look through the whole video before its got a real bitmap for it

the avi codec itself should have a section in the header that says "display this bitmap as the preview" -would speed things up no end, similar to how THM files work on the psp to create previews, but they should be integrated into the video file

-edit, they could release a patch that would unregister the dll for all, but then people would moan that MS are spying on them and trying to take over their life or something and others would complain that they no longer have previews for video
 
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