Help for getting info on avi's

I'm an "Old" rookie at all this, hope you guys don't think I'm an idiot, but I use to be able to get the information on an avi by clicking on properties and summary. It use to give me the size, height & width etc, I had to reformat and now all the summary gives me is a big blob. I get "Summary properties are unavailable for the selected source(s)." how do I get the information back in there?
Thanks for putting up with me.
Bill

 

Summary only works on certain formats.
Are you talking about a format that worked previously but no longer
works?

Does the file play OK in Windows Media Player ?

 

Yes it worked on the very same file, and as far as I remember it worked on just about all formats, and yes it does play in windows media player.

 

Make sure shmedia.dll is regsistered.
Issue this command from a CMD box.

regsvr32 \windows\system32\shmedia.dll

 

Its says can't be found?? Where do I find it or where do I get it??

 

Oops - my bad,
looks like the Shmedia.dll trick only applies to XP.

There's probably an equivalent in the newer OS's, but
I don't know what it is.

 

Sorry, should have said I've got windows XP home edition.
Bill

 

Then you should have this file and it should be registered as I
mentioned.
Use the CMD prompt to look for it.
Type CD \ (press enter)
DIR /S shmedia.dll (press enter)

Did it find it? If not try it this way:
DIR /S /AH shmedia.dll (press enter)

 

Didn't find it.

 

From the command prompt,type:

cd\

then
dir shmedia.dll /s

 

If I knew how to enclose an attachment I could show you what I got.

 

The way to post an image attachement is to first upload the
image to a hosting site such as imageshack.us

Get the forum URL from imageshack and put it in your post.

One command to try, is SFC /SCANNOW this checks your whole system for
missing files and replaces anything it finds wrong.

 

Run that had to put the XP disc in and it took over two hours. I tried those CMD's again and the summary is still the same.
Bill

 

Did you retry the regsvr32 command as mentioned earlier ?

 

Yes

 

Did it actually say the file was registered or did it say
it wasn't found ?

 

I just tried it again and said it succeded.

 

Is the properties summary working now?

 

No same as it was

 

The registry entry should be as shown in the pic for Properties/Summary tab to show the info.
You can copy the lines between the dashes and save it from Notepad as test.reg
Right click on the .reg file and 'merge'.
---------------------------------------
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\SystemFileAssociations\.avi\shellex\PropertyHandler]
@="{87D62D94-71B3-4b9a-9489-5FE6850DC73E}"
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