Why Does explorer crash every time i click on a OGM media file?

[Anubis]

this is more of an annoyance then anything else, i happen to have a good number ov videos that are OGM format, they play fine and such with the right player and codec, however if i click on a single file in windows explorer up pops the

"windows explorer has encountered a problim and needs to close" box dealie, where i can report it and such

explorer then restarts and is fine, and will do it all over again, is there anyway to stop thie form happening? the files are assoiated with a player so they arnt an unrecognized extension or anything,

 

[montag451]

what shows in event viewer?

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: montag451
what shows in event viewer?

K i found event viewer now what am i looking for here?

 

[oog]

it's possible that when you click on this one file, it tries to load up information about the file. when it opens the file, it may end up triggering a bug in the dll that reads ogm files, or the codec used to read some of the video information. i encountered this once, and updated the coded used, and the problem went away. i have had other cases where the file itself was corrupt, and i had to delete it.

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: oog
it's possible that when you click on this one file, it tries to load up information about the file. when it opens the file, it may end up triggering a bug in the dll that reads ogm files, or the codec used to read some of the video information. i encountered this once, and updated the coded used, and the problem went away. i have had other cases where the file itself was corrupt, and i had to delete it.

well i know the file is not corrupt so ill see if updateing the codec helps

 

[montag451]

in event viewer, look for errors [X] or warnings [!] related to when explorer crashes.
supply
SOURCE
EVENT ID
and any text

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: Anubis
this is more of an annoyance then anything else, i happen to have a good number ov videos that are OGM format, they play fine and such with the right player and codec, however if i click on a single file in windows explorer up pops the

"windows explorer has encountered a problim and needs to close" box dealie, where i can report it and such

explorer then restarts and is fine, and will do it all over again, is there anyway to stop thie form happening? the files are assoiated with a player so they arnt an unrecognized extension or anything,

Can you confirm you have the latest OGM player and the latest codec installed?

 

[Anubis]

i have the latest version of the ogg codec installed that i coudl find, "OggDS0995" if there is a newer one LMK and i wil linstall it

i have also installed the latest version of zoom player, "zp403std"

the problim still exists,

montag451 there is nothing in event viewer related to EXPLORER, i even had it open when explorer crashed and nothing new poped up

 

[flamingspinach]

I noticed a couple years ago that .html files have a different icon based on their <META> data (i.e. whether it was created by Frontpage, Word, or Other). This must mean that Explorer has the capability of actually reading a file without asking you first. Freaky! I'm guessing it's probably doing that with your .ogm, except in some wrong fashion. Do you have SP2? SP1?

-fs

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: flamingspinach
I noticed a couple years ago that .html files have a different icon based on their <META> data (i.e. whether it was created by Frontpage, Word, or Other). This must mean that Explorer has the capability of actually reading a file without asking you first. Freaky! I'm guessing it's probably doing that with your .ogm, except in some wrong fashion. Do you have SP2? SP1?

-fs

Xp SP2, all up to date and such

IIRC it happened with SP1 also