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Yu Yu Hakusho epidsode 63 from Anime-MX doesnt work when i try to play it. Is it just me or there is an error with that file. Everyother one i try works.

Get GSpot (see How to play the files? - Codecs, Players and Tools) and start it twice:
- in the one window of GSpot, open one of the files that works (e.g. ep 62) and click "render"
- in the other window of GSpot, open the file that does not work and click "render"

Is there any difference between the two (apart from size and metadata)?
(Note: The message about ogg_vorbis not being installed is normal.)

i have the same problem with several files (episodes from ragnarock, full metal alchemist, samurai champloo), they crash the media player upon loading and even crash windows explorer when using thumbnail prewiew.

any suggestions what i should look for when using Gspot?

Look out for the 4cc of all these files being "xvid", "divx/xvid" or "dx50/xvid". If so, get the latest version of the xvid-codec from Koepi and try again.

interesting detail: it's only the windows programs (explorer and media player) that are affected (read: crash), VideoLAN plays the files without any problems, and total commander can work with them just fine.

Damn, i hate Microsoft ... but then again, who doesn't

If the file is a .ogm file, it sounds like the file triggers the bad ol' bug in OggDS9555. That's a well-known problem, actually. Programs using DirectShow to play a video will eventually use the OGM splitter from that package. If so, the bug in the splitter causes the whole program to just plain exit and die a quick, silent death. VLC is immune to this since it has a non-broken version of the Ogg Media splitter built-in. (In fact, it doesn't use DirectShow at all...)