Recently, windows Explorer has started crashing randomly in a video/picture folder with the "COM surrogate not responding" error, naming libmplayer.dll. as the culprit.
Any idea what this could be? I'm using just the suggested settings on both the x64 and x32 controls.
libmplayer.dll is part of FFDshow.
I would guess it is trying to thumbnail a video when it occurs.
Open the x64 app and on the Misc TAB, disable FFDshow. Does this action cure the crash?
I believe you are correct in that it's trying to thumbnail when it occurs. I will disable FFDShow (any adverse effects of this?), delete the thumbnail cache, and have it rebuild them.
On something possibly related, when I first start up my WMC x64 and go to LiveTV, it gives me an error message that "files are missing that are needed to play LiveTV". I can either go back to the main start page and then back into LiveTV and it works, or I can restart the app and it works. I'm not sure what's going on there either, but I suppose it could be FFDshow related as well since it seems to be using that when I play LiveTV (FFDshow icons in the system tray).