I've seen others with similar, but not identical, problems though I have not seen a fix that works for me. Even if someone can give me a starting direction I'd appreciate it, at the moment I am thinking it is Codec related. That said, I have the same issue with both Shark007 and Windows 8.1 standard Codecs. The only difference between Shark and standard Codecs is I do get a crash with an error more often with the Shark ones, whereas the standard package Hangs without error more often. I'd say