mpegsplitter.ax error

[Patrick]

i keep getting an error about mpegsplitter.ax i guess (for what ive read about it) on most computers the computer just crashes when you get the error until you get rid of or change the name of mpegsplitter.ax, but on mine it just freezes explorer.exe so vista restarts it over and over i dont even have enough time to click start before it freezes again. so i got the problem reports and solutions and tryed some of the stuff on there but i cant seem to do any of it w/o explorer.exe the solutions it gave me were
- check for an update( i did idk if its new but cant replace it because i cant find it)
- disable thumbnail view in windows explorer (cant....need to go to control pannel)
- uninstall the program that caused the problem( i dont know which one did)
- unregister mpegsplitter.ax from your computer( tells you to go to cmd and type regsvr32 /u mpegsplitter.ax, but it came up with an error so below that it says if there is an error just go to start search find it and rename it something like mpegsplitter.ax.old and that should fix the problem, but again i cant use explorer.exe to search for it so i tried through command prompt to rename it just to find out that i dont even know where mpegsplitter.ax is so i cant does anyone know how to fix this w/ no explorer.exe (can you please provide a path). thanks

[Contra]

I was having the same problem. I found MpegSplitter.ax in C:/Program Files/K-Lite Codec Pack/filters/. If you don't have the K-Lite Codec Pack then yours would obviously be somewhere else, but I hope this helps, anyway. :)

[toomyg]

I used to have K-Lite Codec Pack too and it caused problems with my XP pc I got ride of it and only download the codec I really needed.

[cobrasixtysix]

There appears to be a couple of ways to fix this error and I have tested both.

Method 1.

If u really need the mpegsplitter codec to work, do this.

In BOTH "Explorer" AND "My Documents", go to "view" and change the display so that it does NOT show Thumbnails.

Error will not show again.

If you are having trouble doing this, because the error comes up as soon as you open either of them, DO NOT acknowledge the error dialog box, until you have changed the View settings AND have clicked "File" "Close" to save the new settings.

Method 2.

If u dont really need mpegsplitter and you really want to show Thumbnails in Explorer and My Documents, do this.

Navigate to:

C:\Program Files\K-Lite Codec Pack\Filters

and rename mpegsplitter.ax to mpegsplitter.bax.

Error will not show again

You can always rename it back again later on should your requirements change in the future.

PS I know version 1.0.0.5 of mpegsplitter will cause this problem.
I believe that the latest version is 2.2 or something, so could be worth a try as well.

Hope this helps

[jimjim]

I had the exact same problem - Explorer continuously restarting which paralysed my computer- it happened after i played a video- (i have Vista) the solution was to go the command prompt via safe mode command prompt and rename the extention of the mpegsplitter file....(thanks to method 2 below)

that is by using the 'ren' command in DOS...

so after finding the file through using-

dir *mpegsplitter.ax /s

then using the rename command which is:

ren c:\whereeverthefileis\mpegsplitter.ax c:\whereeverthefileis\mpegsplitter.xxx

When i rebooted the problem went away- a strange error- but thanks to those who helped on this previously...