Odd error

[kakomu]

In windows explorer, i get an odd error on a movie i encoded. When I highlight the movie, a small box shows up saying: "Xvid.dll not found". Nothing else.

It's an OGM video, with ogg audio and subtitles. I don't have any other films with subtitles to check if they're the culprit, however, I'm curious why windows explorer is reacting to it. I followed the guidance of this website to make Windows Explorer stop reading movie files:

http://personal-computer-tutor.com/abc3/v31/vic31.htm

I'm just curious if this site's advice is good or bad, and if there is something else i have to do to make Windows Explorer from reading OGM/AVI or other movie files?

[lrms]

If you are using WinXP, I have a cleaner option. Just go to your "%windir%\system32" folder and using the prompt unregister "shmedia.dll". That's the fricking shell extension that cause all those annoyances.

To unregister you just use:
c:\windows\system32>regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll

Also you can re-register later on, if you miss this "feature":
c:\windows\system32>regsvr32 shmedia.dll