XNView Hangs when pointed to folder with lots of Videos

[Bismark]

I have version 1.99.1. When I try to open a .jpg from a folder that has more than 900 video files of all sorts, XnView just hangs for ever. When I look at the task manager, XnView is paging at a rate over 400,000 pages per second. By the time the .jpg was showing, XnView had 65,000,000 pages faults. This did not happen a few versions ago. If the folder only has images, there is no problem. I've looked for an option to tell XnView to ignore videos, but have not found one. In short, XnView is not useable to look at images in this directory. Any ideas anyone has would be welcomed.

[XnTriq]

I've looked for an option to tell XnView to ignore videos, but have not found one.

Untick the checkboxes for Video files in Tools » Options... » Browser » File List » File List and set View » Filter By to Custom.

[Bismark]

Well, I made all the suggested changes and it does not display any videos, but still takes about a minute to display and had 66,000,000 page faults. I have an 8 GByte system running the current version of Windows 7. Changing the View option did not make any difference. Strange.

[XnTriq]

Memory leak?

As a workaround (until the bug is identified & fixed) you could also try turning off caching:

• Tools » Options...
  1. View » Misc. » Cache
  2. Browser » Thumbnails » Cache

[xnview]

avi?

[Bismark]

a little of each kind.

[Bismark]

cache is the problem. It had lots of folders and was 1.06 GB. I removed all the folders, but that took 5 minutes. Perhaps there should be a limit on the size and number of folders it tracks. Now it has 8 KB cache.

[Bismark]

OK, Cache is not the problem. i cleared it out and turned it off and still have 8,000,000 page faults opening a .jpg in the folder. Sorry.

[xnview]

If you untick video in Options>FileList?