I'm trying to edit together a bunch of old family home movies. They were tranferred from the Camcorder to disc with a DVD Recorder (the type you hook up to a TV). The problem came when I tried to get it to my computer. I read that .vob files are essentially identical to .mpegs, and you can rename them as such to view them.
It worked, however for some reason when I do they trigger the Data Execution Prevention feature of Windows/my processor, and close Windows Explorer. After converted it triggers it even when just selecting the files (not opening them).
I somehow managed to get them into Pinnacle Studio 9, and tried to put a couple scenes to a file. I tried rendering them in .avi and various .mpegs, and those files give the same errors. However uncompressed video doesn't.
Considering the source, there is a 0% chance of those files containing malicious code, so what gives?

My specs if it helps:

AMD Athlon 3700+ San Diego at stock speeds
1 GB of Ram
BFG 7800GT OC
Running XP Service Pack 2

Spyware scan with AdAware and Spybot shows clean.

Try converting your vob files to mpeg rather than renaming them. There are several utilites to do this. I'd start with VOB2MPG v2.3 since it's free and supposed to be easy-to-use (Haven't used this one personally).

http://www.svcd2dvd.com/downloads.aspx#VOB2MPG

It's not just the video files now. I downloaded the Call of Juarez MP demo, and I got the same crap when I tried to run it (Data Execution Prevention blocked the game engine).

Did you try a virus scan?


Try updating your vid card drivers, and even see if your mobo has an updated chipset driver.

Also, could you have installed the wrong codecs from some program? Try re-installing Microsoft's:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/format/codecdownload.aspx

Finally, you can disable DEP, but I would only do this as a last resort. Instructions here.

I have. Trend Micro Housecall turned up a negative for viruses. I also did a Memory Diagnostic, and everything is fine.
I am using the latest video card drivers. Funny thing about the Chipset drivers though. My BIOS says it's version 2.58, yet the highest that is available on the manufacturers website is 2.20, and that was released in June (Well after I bought mine: ASRock 939 DualSATA2).
I highly doubt it's codecs. as I have never to my knowledge installed any, so it should be all microsofts still.
The problems mentioned aren't my only ones though. I forgot to mention for the past couple months I've been getting random restarts and program freezes. It's not a spyware or virus because it persists through several formats. I don't think it's heat, as I've never seen any heat problems when checking GPU and CPU temperatures. My case is an Antec Sontata 2, and they;re supposed to be excellent for heat management.
I know I can disable DEP, but I'd really rather not.

Found this on Microsoft's site:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=884130

Check Pinnacle, I imagine they have an update to resolve this.

I have a similar problem with videos I have downloaded... most of them are either DivX or Xvid format... as soon as I select them, Explorer crashes. This is with and without DEP enabled. It's more of an annoyance than anything else, but I would like to know how to resolve it.

If I open the video in WMP 11, I can select and watch the video with no glitches at all. I tried the same files in Vista, and there was no problems at all there... I could select the files without crashing explorer... so there's gotta be something with XP and these types of video files...

Nope. I tried the patch for Pinnacle Studio 9, and it didn't fix it.

Check your IDE cables if you have an IDE hard disk, some time ago my computer used to crash a lot then I found out that the IDE cable was damaged somehow so try that maybe u wont have those DEP errors

Seems to be a bad codec. Try uninstalling Pinnacle, and your video codecs. Then re-install the Microsoft codecs and Windows Media Player - make sure you let Media Player be the default player for all video files.

Zoron-> Try here:
http://stage6.divx.com/Community+Forums/posts/37/1353

Hmmmm...

Well, that seems to have worked... I'll let you know if there are any more problems.

I have stumbled on this thread some time later...

I have exactly the same symptoms on my laptop.
No viruses.

Have Studio 9 (patched up to last version).
Must confess to lots of wild stabs in the dark whilst trying to work out to convert dvds to files for my media player, so have probably messed up the video codecs.

Want to try the advice of removing studio and codecs.
Removing studio is well within my capabilities, but how do I remove the codecs?

I have powerdvd, quicktime player and windows media player 11 on XP Pro SP2

Any help gratefully recieved
Charles