little problem with avi's.....

#1 RavishingRocket

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Posted 02 November 2003 - 10:57 PM

i right click the avi and go to properties/summary to view the length, codec used etc. etc.....but the file info is no longer there. it used to be there and now its not and dont know why. anyone know how i can return this information? thanks

#2 adamvjackson

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Posted 02 November 2003 - 11:31 PM

Check your file associations, are .avi files opening with something other than WMP?

I believe that tab is dependent on a WMP library.

#3 RavishingRocket

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Posted 03 November 2003 - 12:17 AM

i dont have any other programs for viewing avi's. I went to folder options/file types and deleted the .avi extension and reput it in and that didnt work. anything else?

#4 duhmez

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Posted 04 November 2003 - 01:40 AM

this is what sounds like happened. you could not delete avi files before, so you did a reg tweak so you could delete them.
IFSHLP.exe is the culprit and is disabled using this tweak. IFSHLP.exe normally is what gives you thr propertis of the file, but some ahve the glitch of not being able to delete avi files, the fix basically disabesd ifshlp.

Download viortualdub
www.virtualdub.org
load the avi file then go to file>file information. this will give you all the info yo need.