problem with dv-avi

[paglamon]

My friend transferred video(of our recent trek) from his Sony handycam to his pc through firewire(as DV-AVI).Then he burned this as data into a blank DVD and gave it to me for editing.When I open this DVD in my pc and click on the dv-avi file Windows Explorer crashes.I tried to open it with GSpot. After a considerable time GSpot managed to get the file parameters and declared that I have the codecs installed.Then I tried to render the file in GSpot.Now GSpot too crashed(or nearly so) and said that the problem is probably in qdv.dll. I tried unregistering and reregistering qdv.dll. No success.What now?
BTW,my friend said that the burnt file played successfully in his pc.

[NightTran]

can you copy this file to your HD then edit it?

[paglamon]

No,I can't. Right-click on the file causes exporer.exe crash.

[NightTran]

I have aproblem like that but the file was 1080 somehow the card can not handle and cause the crash

Not righ6t click just highlight then move file from the left window?

[paglamon]

OK.Left click did not cause a crash But,as soon as I selected 'Copy' from the left window,explorer crashed again.

[NightTran]

, you need Columbo Or Chewy then

[benbryant]

Make sure that you have the latest version of DirectX 9.0c or reinstall it to see if it helps. Sometimes, you have to delete the "qdv.dll" in the "system32" folder first and then reinstall DirectX 9.0c. Good luck

Regards

[paglamon]

DirectX version: 9.0c(4.09.0000.0904).I have this.

[benbryant]

So you did try to goto Start > Run and type:

regsvr32 %windir%\system32\qdv.dll

to re-register "qdv.dll" and the problem is still?

Regards

[paglamon]

So you did try to goto Start > Run and type:

regsvr32 %windir%\system32\qdv.dll

to re-register "qdv.dll" and the problem is still?

Yes.Exactly.

[benbryant]

Please go to the link below download the Panasonic DV Codec. I have had the problem with opening .avi files before, after installing this > the problem was gone. Therefore, for every windows clean install, it's always one of the first codecs I install

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/Panasonic_DV_Codec

Regards

[paglamon]

Sorry Ben. .No success.

[anonymez]

qdv.dll is MS's DV decoder that installs with DirectX, as you would have figured out. Looks like something about this DV AVI in particular is the causing explorer to crash, likely the decoder, possibly the splitter. When you open a folder containing images, video or audio, explorer's media shell extension previews (via Directshow in this case, not VFW, which is why installing Panasonic's decoder did not work) each file and generates thumbnails, metadata, etc.

A temporary fix is disabling it,

regsvr32 /u "shmedia.dll"

(maybe remove the quotes, haven't used Windows in a bit) The proper fix would be to enable DV decoding in ffdshow, and if the splitter is the cause, installing Haali's splitter.

[paglamon]

Thanks anon .I will try to follow ur suggestions and reply.

[anonymez]

Good luck. I should probably add that to enable the extension again, just remove the /u:

regsvr32 "shmedia.dll"