Lost MPG thumbnails (again).

[Terry Pinnell]

I've lost most of my MPG thumbnails. IOW, in a Windows folder in
Thumbnail View, I just get standard icons, not a picture taken from a
frame in the video.

After much googling I tried various fixes, including:
Run: regsvr32 shimgvw.dll but that didn't get them back
Also Run: REGSVR32 SHMEDIA.DLL, which has worked for me in the past,
but no change this time.

Also checked the 'PersistentHandler' registry entries descrtibed as a
solution in this thread, but mine are already OK
http://tinyurl.com/yaw2klq

The aspect that seems different this time is that some thumbnails
*are* still OK. In the past I recall it was probably all or nothing.

Can anyone help me isolate and fix this please?

 

[Terry Pinnell]

I've lost most of my MPG thumbnails. IOW, in a Windows folder in
Thumbnail View, I just get standard icons, not a picture taken from a
frame in the video.

After much googling I tried various fixes, including:
Run: regsvr32 shimgvw.dll but that didn't get them back
Also Run: REGSVR32 SHMEDIA.DLL, which has worked for me in the past,
but no change this time.

Also checked the 'PersistentHandler' registry entries descrtibed as a
solution in this thread, but mine are already OK
http://tinyurl.com/yaw2klq

The aspect that seems different this time is that some thumbnails
*are* still OK. In the past I recall it was probably all or nothing.

Can anyone help me isolate and fix this please?

Anyone with any thoughts at all on this vexing problem please? In
addition to trying the potential fixes above I've done successive
System Restores. And removed the MPG association from File Types and
re-installed it. All so far in vain.

I strongly suspect it's some sort of codec issue.
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For all of the files with .MPG extension that use MPEG2, I DO NOT get
thumbnails. For *all* other .MPG (and other movie and graphics) files
I DO get thumbnails. I'm hoping that therein lies the key to
identifying the cause.

My next step will be to go back to the source files of some of these,
where possible, and try re-making the MPG files in various alternative
programs.

Meanwhile, any suggestions would be much appreciated please.