Reported v4.23: AVI's always show, even when "unassociated"

[infinice]

I have a few folders of mixed videos and stills, among them .avi's.
The following problem may be more than only .avi, but even if so, it's a PITA [Pain In The...].
Even if one leaves the .avi box unchecked in File Associations, Irfanview insists on playing it. The best i've managed is having Irfanview display the video window, but not actually play the .avi. I have checked and unchecked all the "Misce.1" boxes that could have an effect, and un/-re-installed IV, but no luck.
I want to get Irfanview to totally ignore the avi's in my folder. Any suggestions???
If IV did a better job playing videos i wouldn't care, but until Irfan gets around to adding freeze-frame, slow-mo, image processing etc. i'll go out of my way to have KMPlayer play all my videos. [And, at version 4.32 and zero video improvements, it's obvious video is a distant afterthought to him.]

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

In Properties, Extensions, you have two choices:

1. Load only associated types while browsing through directory
2. Load custom file types

If the second option is selected, you can specify which file types are loaded, whether they are associated or not.

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Load custom results

In Properties, Extensions, you have two choices:

1. Load only associated types while browsing through directory
2. Load custom file types

If the second option is selected, you can specify which file types are loaded, whether they are associated or not.

The second suggestion, "Load Custom File Types" works. In retrospect i should've tried it myself, on the logic of why-not-click-everything-in-sight.

But I do think this feature should be better labeled and/or documented! [to block a file type one selects "load custom file type"!???].

Thanks for the help!

Infinice

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[Skippybox]

But I do think this feature should be better labeled and/or documented! [to block a file type one selects "load custom file type"!???].

Actually, it makes quite a bit of sense.

Either you want to load your associations, which could exclude AVI

...or

load a custom list of file types that exclude AVI (yet still allow AVI to be associated if desired).

Thus, you can just browse your associations or keep them separate from the extensions you want browsed.

[infinice]

follow-up

"Load Custom File Types" is still checked, but, when IV reaches an .avi file it still displays the outlines of its video window [desktop bitmap showing thru most of it], and must be spacebar clicked to unstick, to reach the next item in file.
Software generally works so badly that normally when this type of glitch happens i don't get annoyed.
But it happens in a program as well-written and usable [a rare combination!] as Irfanview, the contrast makes it even worse than it is. This could just be an unfortunate coincidence, but... i've had other video problems [maybe it's the clumsy, opportunity-for-errors separate downloading and installation of Irfanview and its plugins?]. Or perhaps his de-prioritizing of Irfanview's video modules shows here.

[Skippybox]

I don't encounter that behavior. If I have excluded the extension in custom types, then it does not appear in thumbnails or the viewer.

Video should be an afterthought, considering this is an image viewer, not a video viewer. Plugins are extra functionality that are not necessary for intended functionality. Being that most are developed by other people than the author, they are something separate. Also note that video is not really handled by IrfanView, but actually the video components of the computer IrfanView is installed on. IrfanView simply calls on these to render video in the viewer. So, don't look for video development.