Re: Corrupt Canon S2IS movie clips and WinXP crashes
- From: "Quaoar" <quaoar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 07:46:38 -0700
per wrote:
> Some of my video clips do crash WinXP SP2, seemingly as soon as
> Windows Explorer reads in the file info, when opening the folder
> where it is placed. (I have Windows Media Player 10 for playing the
> movie clips.) When using the Canon Utilities Camera Window file
> transfering
> software, the movie file can be looked at without crashing, but
> trying to play it will start Media Player, with a resulting crash.
> The movie can be played within the camera, however, and viewed on the
> camera LCD screen.
> Two different computers I have share this problems, both WinXP and
> AMD64. An old computer with Win Me have no problems showing these bad
> movies though.
> Canon support in Sweden has not been able to track the issue down.
> Do you have any ideas what is going on?
> /per
The way Windows XP works with AVI files is that the OS will attempt to
read through the AVI file when it is accessed by any directory
operation. Corrupt AVI files will fail the read process and crash at
least Windows Explorer. This was a known issue in XP RTM; I'm not sure
if it still applies to XP SP2. In any event, there is a registry fix
for the corrupt AVI file problem: http://bink.nu/?ArticleID=709 (note
that this fix is for "large" AVI files, but I've had the problem on 50MB
AVI files from my Canon G3).
I am having some difficulty understanding exactly what is happening from
your description, but it seems that there is a possibility that you are
not actually transfering (copying or moving) the files from the camera
to the hard disk, but only generating a shortcut to the AVI files still
residing on the camera?
The fact that you indicate that the crashes occur when opening or
selecting the folder containing the AVI files is crucial and suggests
that the folder itself is a shortcut to a camera folder that cannot be
accessed since the camera is powered off or physically disconnected.
XP, or Windows Explorer more properly, will appear to hang or become
unresponsive as it searches for the location of the folder or files
indicated in the shortcut path statement. Windows Explorer will
eventually generate a "file not found", "path not found" or similar
dialog - this can take several minutes and appear to be a crash when in
fact it is not.
Anyway, keep us posted on the solution you find.
Q
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