Anyone get this error ? everything, Explorer, navigate, Windows, related

andy

Hi group,

This is related to video work, so I felt it best to post here, but I wasn't sure of which forum, so, I will ask here anyway.

Everytime I use Windows Explorer to select a MPEG or AVI video file it crashes. I use Windows XP Pro and I have 512mb ram and 80gb of disk space, defragged and everything. I am so confused by this error. I just have to click the file once, and it crashes, I can view MPEG files fine in Real One or any other player, it is just when trying to navigate through Windows Explorer that I have the problem. I have had to use x2 explorer (a third party file manager) instead, this works fine, but it still doesn't solve the problem as far as viewing via WE goes. I would like to solve it if possible.

Anyone have or had a similar problem ?

Cheers,

Jon

80 Gb seems quite a lot of space to me for one partition. Maybe try to divide up your harddisk in 4 disks, 20 Gb each, for example, or even better, make one extra partition of 4 Gb to use as a scratch disk for Windows (swap memory).

If it doesn't solve your problem, it will at least increase and stabilize your system performance.

I've had similar problems twice.

Once with an Xvid(very early release) file that I had to delete from Cygwin Bash Shell as I even got a crash at dos prompt when I tried. I never used Xvid again.

The second was a DivX 5.0 Pro avi that I had made while playing around with the RC averaging period and all the other things you should try not to touch and I also abortedDub on the second pass before completion. It crashed XP explorer everytime I even selected it and once again had to be deleted from a unix emulated environment.

The Xvid file couldn't be opened by any player. The DivX file could be opened by microDVDplayer, bplayer, but froze media player.

I have a P4 2ghz 512mb ram 60gb IBM HDD partioned into 4 (2x20gb, 1x15gb and 1x5gb swap space).

i don't know if this helps you.