Matroska Thumbnail preview problem

[NeD tHe OnE]

When I posted about this problem in Hydrogenaudioforums ...

I was recommended to post it over here ...

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Matroska is Awesome!
But I've a slight problem with the preview software "Matroska Shell Extension"
Like after converting a DVD video to MKV ... During Thumbail View, My Explorer Hungs up and terminates automatically. It shows some compiling error during Thumbnail view.
Though I've found the solution. A cover is compulsory for me 2 mux with the video!

I had converted MPEG2 format video to XviD 2 pass arnd 800 Kbps with Vorbis Audio 96 Kbps Lancer Compiled Aotuv b4.51 to MKV (muxed using mkvmerge)...... When I got the output MKV Video . There was an error .....

Here's the debug attachment which i got when the explorer crashed

[TonyMo]

I think this is a known issue, but there doesn't seem to be much work on this lately... hopefully they are working in the background.

Although I have not been able to find a way to prevent the crash occuring, I have found a way to recover from it.

Go to any explorer window and select Folder Options from the Tools menu. Then click on the view tab and select "Show hidden files and folder". Then 2 lines below there untick "Hide protected operating system files" and dismiss the warning dialog... and close the Folder Options window.

Now, switch over to list view and navigate back to your crashing window. If you stay in list view it should not crash. You should be able to see a file called Thumbs. Trash it.

Now switch back to Thumbnails view and if necessary, refresh the offending icon and it should run fine...

You can go back to Folder Options and click the view tab again then click on restore defaults to hide those system files again...

This usually works for me and I offer this is a temporary stop gap solution for you until someone hopefully gets round to fixing the bug. I really like seeing cover art on my desktop like this... Wish there was a way to do this with MP4 files too...

PS... Just looking over this procedure, I noticed there is an option to "Do not cache thumnails" in the folder options window... selecting that *MIGHT* help solve this niggling problem at the cost of slowing down the screen refresh in explorer. Worth a try...

[Zero1]

You can turn off the thumbnails for MKV (In the start menu go to Haali's config).

There is also a way to get Windows to thumbnail the files itself, but that might just give you the same error.