Haali Media Splitter 20/5/2010

Dear Contributors,

Ive worked with codecs for awhile, but Ill honestly admit I dont know what a "splitter" does.

The concensus of opinion appears to be Haali Media Splitter is a necessary component for smooth MKV playback.

Latest version (2004-2009 Mike Matsnev) solved my thumbnail problem (Invalid byte error) in Win XP.

Untick AVI Support during install. Set "extract thumbnail" to YES in Haali Media Splitter Config Options.

The best splitter out there for MKVs. I never had a problem yet. Nothing but negative reviews by negative people.

No idea why all the negative reviews, an excellent splitter. Kinda important if you watch mkvs. I have NEVER had a problem with it and have NEVER been unable to uninstall. I swear you people are confusing this with something else.

a pain in the arse, impossible to remove, as caribgoodsays, unpackages itself with out saying and is more like a trojan DO NOT DOWNLOAD!!!

Use Registry Crawler to eliminate anything left Behind

crashes occur with win xp similarly to previous posts very annying do not install

I have to agree with caribgood. I uninstalled it with Revo; usually you have a few registry marks left after the program's own uninstall, but this one left 53 behind it. Not easy to get rid of...

Haali is a sneaky SOB installing itself unknown to the user when it come packaged within other video software like FLV tag-alongs. Once on your system it is very difficult to remove. It tries to launch without permission whenever you simply browse a folder with video files in it. This uninvited launch crashes on Vista systems, two crashes for every video file in the folder. <br/> <br/>The crashes seem harmless, only affecting the unwanted launch of Haali Media Splitter. However, it is disgusting to have to keep clicking "OK" buttons to kill the crash. <br/> <br/>Normal uninstall techniques do not work as it has no "Add/Remove Software" listing and removing its thirty-something registry entries does not work either. It re-installs itself within seconds. <br/> <br/>Save yourself a lot of grief and do not install Haali or any software based upon Haali engines. <br/> <br/>A piss-poor product that acts more like a Trojan than useful video editing software.