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[plastic]

I'm having probelms with 11.1.160, (and in fact everything before that from 11.1.143)

When I open my video pane (which contains about 60 700Mb movies ripped from my DVD collection), things slow to a crawl.
Mediacentre is using 99% of the CPU (3.06GHz P4 HT, XP SP2, 2Gig DRAM), with the page fault count in Task manager steadily climbing. Weird thing is, I also get a similar issue when I open that folder in explorer and left click a file, CPU usage climbs to 50% (because with the HT, 2nd virtual CPU blah blah) and stays there until I close the window.
I've tried everything, including a clean reinstall of XP, but it's still happening.
Any ideas?

[JimH]

Virus checker?  It's something like that.

[Mr ChriZ]

Weird and wonderful video codecs,
that MC and Explorer are using to get the thumbnails?

[plastic]

Virus checker is off, as is everything else I can find.
I don't think it's the codec, they're all Xvid, GSpot identifies them all just fine and they all play just fine too.
Any other ideas?

[marko]

explorer first:

Do you have the details pane open in the left hand pane?
If you do, is it playing the video back in that little preview window?
If yes, that's the rescource hog right there.
Close the details pane. I cannot remember where exactly, but somewhere, there's an option to turn of video previews in that area.

With MC it could be a thumbnail building thing, or a tag querying thing, or a corrupt file, or all or none of those
Perhaps you use the tree to filter things down a bit, so that all the files are not being displayed at once, then click through the filter showing a couple of files at a time and see if you come across a 'problem' file along the way.