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ziniaraya
Member

London
194 Posts
4/03
Posted - Jul 14 2007 : 5:13AM
I have downloaded some MPG4 files. When I go into Windows Media Centre and you get the little square thumbnails, when ever I reach the ones with the MPG4 videos the system sort of freezes up. I doesn't totally freeze but everything goes grindingly 'slow' - not just 'slow' but 'virtually stops'. You can't barely manipulate the mouse pointer so you have to turn the machine off. I don't even get so far as trying to actually play the video in Media Centre - as soon as the MPG4 film thumbnail appears on the screen, that's it. I don't mind that I can't play them in Media Centre, but I don't want to have to save them in an isolated file.
The MPG4 files don't seem to have viruses as (a) I checked and (b) if I click them from Explore menu they play ok as Quicktime files.
Anyone know what gives ?
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kukm4
Member

so-cal
212 Posts
9/04
Posted - Jul 14 2007 : 12:25PM
Well not sure if its the same in media center, but I has similar prob with a Avi file. In XP when you select an image file you get a thumnail preview in bottom left corner, same with video files. Its was this feature that was causing the slow down, so I did some checking online and found a way to disable it. You would go to
Start--Run-- (type) regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll--OK (button)
You can read more about this here
http://www.moviecodec.com/topics/3588p1.html
As mentioned in above link, if you wish to re-enable this
feature just do the steps above but type
regsvr32 shmedia.dll
instead.



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