Anyone get this error ?

[JonRead]

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

[nsg_dayak]

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.

[?¿öM¿?]

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.
:confused:

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.:(