.avi crashing my players

[Graceland]

I have an .avi file. When I try to play it using either Windows Media Player or Zoom Player it crashes the program. If I try to move or delete the file it crashes Explorer.

I have used gspot to confirm that the file is complete and that I have the necessary codecs to play it.

When I access it using either WinAvi Video Converter or DvdSanta to try to convert it to another format it crashes those programs as well.

I have confirmed with several other people who got the same file from the same source that they have viewed it with no problems and with no special steps needed.

I have obtained the same file three times. The first I was able to eventually delete using CMD. The other two I still have on my HD using slightly different names (they came that way, I didn't rename them and don't think I would be able to without crashing Explorer).

I'm open to any useful suggestions and thank you for your help.

 

[Graceland]

A little further info.

Trying to run the file in a Divx player gives the same results.

Turning off the .avi preview feature in XP did not help.

I'm almost 100% certain this is not a corruption problem. There's something about my system and/or settings that is causing this.

 

[TMan7000]

Could it be a virus?

 

[Graceland]

My virus detector says I'm not infected, and why would a virus work just on that .avi file? I'm not having trouble running any others that I have.

 

[majistic]

It could be some sort of a virus...Or a defective file...what file is it ?

 

[Graceland]

I still don't know what was wrong, but somebody suggesting trying VLC Media Player and that runs it fine.

Thanks to everybody for trying to help.

 

[Chemical_fusion]

Im having the same problem, and its not just 1 file.

I transfered one of the AVI's to another PC on the network, it played fine.

I installed DirectX 9.0c which came with vampire the masquerade, so im now thinking its possibly that ??

Have you installed DirectX recently ?

 

[Graceland]

No, had that on quite a while.