TMPGEnc Xpress 3.0 Created File Crashes Windows Explorer

[tdan]

I downloaded the trial version of TMPEnc Xpress 3.0 and encoded an MPEG2 file from a small AVI. After the process has completed, accessing the actual .mpg file that was created causes Windows Explorer to crash. In other words, if you click on the file, right-click on the file, or try to play it by double-clicking on it, explorer.exe crashes hard (Dr. Watson hard).

The only way to delete this "file of doom" is to use a command prompt. I have tried other existing mpg's and they play fine, so it is not a problem with mpeg's in general; it only crashes with the ones I create with TMPGEnc.

Has anyone else experienced this? I am running WinXP SP2.

Dan

[marsmayhem]

Had a similar problem. Installed MPEG2 codec and it worked ok (actually, I installed Ulead DVD Workshop 2, and it worked okay after that).

Do you have any DVD playback software installed?

[tdan]

Funny, I just figured out the cause myself today It turns out that, indeed, ULead was the culprit, but in my case it was ULead DVD Player that was incompletely uninstalled. When I finally looked at the exception details that explorer generated, it was blowing up in a file called cevideo.ax that was related to ULead (which I *had* uninstalled). I renamed cevideo.ax to cevideo.ax_ and the problem went away.

After that, I deleted all traceds of Ulead from by hard drive and registry

Dan