Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] locking up when viewing video captures

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

phat pig wrote:
> I have been successful in reassembling image files (gif,jpg) from my
> capture files.
>   
These are usually much smaller than videos ;-)
> I saw an archived thread where someone was successful in reassembling
> videos using the same method.
>
> So far though, wireshark is locking up when I click on 'media type'.
>
> Size does not seem to matter.
>
>   
Sure? Please try a *very* short video file and wait for a *very* long 
time (minutes!) if WS does react in the end.

WS does scale very bad when it comes to show "huge" chunks of data 
(meaning huge >100k).
> Is there a tutorial on reassembling images and videos?
>   
No, but you may write one ...

BTW: In the recent developer builds was a feature added to export all 
kinds of HTTP objects which I guess is what you are doing here.

Regards, ULFL