Okay, I am trying to take an xvid file and cut a specific segment from it. When I first open Virtual Dub, it's okay. I can browse through the menus and what not. But when I try to open the file, it suddenly starts consuming a lot of memory, it freezes up and I can't do anything with it. So I closed the program and tried to open the file using "Open With." That worked, I could now access the xvid file in Virtual Dub. But then when I tried to save it, I got the same problem again. So then I thought the problem was with the program itself and so I got Nandub and tried that. Same result. I restarted my computer, same result.
Then I tried using the ccleaner program as well as vopt 8 to get things running better on my hard drive. Still, the same result occurs.
What baffles me is that I don't have a problem opening a folder window or windows explorer. I'm using Windows XP, if that helps anything.
one thing that can cause the problem is if windows explorer is having problems with the thumbnails on the video files. It sounds unrelated but I encountered something similar and tried reinstalling codecs etc but could never fix it until I disable the explorer thumbnails.
Problem: This is a known issue with Windows XP's braindead video thumbnail thing in Explorer. Being a thing invented by MS, it's buggy and doesn't always know how to handle things not supported by MS, and occasionally fails on things it does know how to support too. Every now and again it will crash and take Explorer down with it. Easy to solve thankfully.
Solution:
Windows XP:
* Go to Start -> Run... and type
regsvr32 /u shmedia.dll
Press enter. Done. It's as simple as that. If you, for some reason want it back, simply do the same thing again, but remove the "/u". That is: Start -> Run... regsvr32 shmedia.dll
This will only disable movie thumbnails/previews, not picture thumbnails.
If that doesn't fix it, try moving your files to a different partition or hard drive, and try to do the editing from there. I've had situations, where a particular program would crash when accessing files from a certain partition/hard drive.
