Vista Media Center Video Browser crashes

External Since: May 14, 2007 Posts: 12

Hi Guy's/Girls,

I'm currently having problems where the video browser for vista media
center crashes while trying to render my folders of films, which are
mostly DivX backups of my DVD collection (about 150 of them). I
originally thought it was too many films for the browser to render all
the thumbnails so i seperated them into many sub folders of no more
than 10 in a folder, but of course it still tries to render the mini-
thumbnails on the folders.

Now I suspect strongly it's the thumbnail rendering process so;

a) Can I make it list the films by name and not try rendering
thumbnails (more useful)
b) Is it possible that some of my older film copies, possibly done
using older/different codecs are the issue
c) Is there an alternative browser plugin, perhaps one as awesome as
the one in TVedia available?

Thanks,
John

External Since: May 14, 2007 Posts: 12

On 14 May, 15:45, Adam Albright wrote:
> On 14 May 2007 07:15:32 -0700, John Braham
> wrote:
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> >Hi Guy's/Girls,
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> >I'm currently having problems where the video browser for vista media
> >center crashes while trying to render my folders of films, which are
> >mostly DivX backups of my DVD collection (about 150 of them). I
> >originally thought it was too many films for the browser to render all
> >the thumbnails so i seperated them into many sub folders of no more
> >than 10 in a folder, but of course it still tries to render the mini-
> >thumbnails on the folders.
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> >Now I suspect strongly it's the thumbnail rendering process so;
>
> >a) Can I make it list the films by name and not try rendering
> >thumbnails (more useful)
> >b) Is it possible that some of my older film copies, possibly done
> >using older/different codecs are the issue
> >c) Is there an alternative browser plugin, perhaps one as awesome as
> >the one in TVedia available?
>
> >Thanks,
> >John
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> Yours is a common problem. I have it too, times about 20. Wink

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> What happens is often for reasons you'll have to ask Microsoft, but
> don't really expect any acceptable answer, thumbnails often get
> redrawn for no apparant reason, since the thumbnail is ALREADY made
> and sitting in the database. If you have a 100 vids in a folder that
> can take a while. Image if you have thousands like I do.
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> Yes you can make it just list names if you use Windows Explorer. In
> Explorer set View to show details. That way you can add notes as well.
> The good news is you don't lose the ability to show thumnails, just
> switch back and forth between details and thumbnail views.
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> You want a faster, better, free, awesome thumbnail viewer that doubles
> as a player? Try: XnView. Works fine in Vista.- Hide quoted text -
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> - Show quoted text -

Thanks,

Are you suggesting that if I set the films folder to details view in
explorer that those settings will be reflected in the film folder
browser in the media center app, I thought I had tried that already,
maybe I didn't do it right?

Is this XnView a plugin that works inside vista media center, becuase
what I want to avoid is using serveral different applications to use
the media center, as I enjoy the luxury of switching between using it
for live tv and music and recorded films with out getting over to the
pc and changing the application I'm using (otherwide I'de carry on
using powerDVD and just couble clicking on the film file in file
browser!).

Thanks,
John