XYplorer hangs when displaying/generating video thumbnails

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Megalith
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XYplorer hangs when displaying/generating video thumbnails

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This issue has actually been discussed before. When generating certain video thumbnails, XYplorer becomes completely unresponsive. It has become so bad that I have had to kill the program using Task Manager on certain occasions.

One solution proposed is turning off File Info Tips, but this isn't helping. For some reason, it only seems to affect certain video file types, such as .WMV.

I have no idea what the issue could be, as the videos aren't corrupted in any way. Something peculiar I did notice, however, is that XYplorer may try creating an HTML file when generating a .WMV thumbnail (video.wmv.html). Is that odd?

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Re: XYplorer hangs when displaying/generating video thumbnails

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Really strange. I assume your WMV preview handler is doing this.


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Re: XYplorer hangs when displaying/generating video thumbnails

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GUID: {031EE060-67BC-460d-8847-E4A7C5E45A27}
DefaultName: Windows Media Player Rich Preview Handler
DisplayName: @wmploc.dll,-144

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Re: XYplorer hangs when displaying/generating video thumbnails

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Maybe you should find a place where you can upload one of those .wmv files that cause
this behavior (ofc buy truncating them to a reasonable value if they are too large) so
that the error could be replicated on (e.g.) Don's system...
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Re: XYplorer hangs when displaying/generating video thumbnails

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Megalith wrote:GUID: {031EE060-67BC-460d-8847-E4A7C5E45A27}
DefaultName: Windows Media Player Rich Preview Handler
DisplayName: @wmploc.dll,-144
Same here but no such issues.

So, see highend's last post...

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Re: XYplorer hangs when displaying/generating video thumbnails

Post by Megalith »

I managed to fix it by installing a third-party thumbnail generator, Media Preview. I'm not sure why the native Windows one stopped working, as I have never updated or altered the video codecs on my machine.

One difference I have noticed is that I can no longer clear/reset my video thumbnails using XYplorer, as Media Preview seems to generate its own set within Windows/Explorer. If I want to re-generate thumbnails, I have to run Disk Cleanup to delete the thumbnails.

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