Has anyone been able to get Movie Maker to recognise xvid avi files? I
downloaded a codec at http://www.xvid.org/ and installed it. WMP11 and Media
Center now play the avi files fine. Windows Movie maker only sees them as
audio files. I'm currently using 32 bit build 5728. The problem was the same
in 5600.

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Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca

I'm having the exact same prblem!
I have a .avi movie which has video encoded in xvid and audio in mp3.
According to microsoft @ 'File formats supported by Windows Movie Maker
in Windows XP' (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308464), this obviously
isn't supported.
Any way to fix this?


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AllahIsBest

AllahIsBest wrote:
I'm having the exact same prblem!
I have a .avi movie which has video encoded in xvid and audio in mp3.
According to microsoft @ 'File formats supported by Windows Movie
Maker in Windows XP' (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308464), this
obviously isn't supported.
Any way to fix this?
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If you cannot import the file...it may be worth a try
to convert the file to a compatible format like .wmv.

Maybe one of the following free programs would
be worth a try:

SUPER © Simplified
Universal Player Encoder & Renderer
http://www.videohelp.com/tools/SUPER
(the mirror download site is faster)

Windows Media Encoder
http://tinyurl.com/bbal
or...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

Info on using Windows Media Encoder
How do I convert other video file formats to WMV?
http://tinyurl.com/2o8uso
or...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...vice/0065.mspx

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J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

Yeah but i have a 2 hour and 40 minute long movie at super high quality
which is going to take super long to export from windows movie maker
itself, let alone the fact that windows movie maker doesn't exactly do
nondestructive video editing. I want some kind of codec that can make it
work.


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AllahIsBest

AllahIsBest;1095577 Wrote:
Yeah but i have a 2 hour and 40 minute long movie at super high quality
which is going to take super long to export from windows movie maker
itself, let alone the fact that windows movie maker doesn't exactly do
nondestructive video editing. I want some kind of codec that can make it
work.


As the man says, it is not going to work. WMM is a poor tool anyhow to
do anything and the output is miserable. What exactly are you trying to
do? Maybe there are better tools than WMM.


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whs

whs;1095601 Wrote:
AllahIsBest;1095577 Wrote:
Yeah but i have a 2 hour and 40 minute long movie at super high quality
which is going to take super long to export from windows movie maker
itself, let alone the fact that windows movie maker doesn't exactly do
nondestructive video editing. I want some kind of codec that can make it
work.


As the man says, it is not going to work. WMM is a poor tool anyhow
to do anything and the output is miserable. What exactly are you
trying to do? Maybe there are better tools than WMM.

Allright forget it i'll just convert it first.


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AllahIsBest