Shafski;1030315 Wrote:
Clevo;1029836 Wrote:
Shafski;1029799 Wrote:
Hey, I'm really confused and have googled for hours on a solution but
I'm so tired I decided to just make a post on it hoping somebody would
help me.
I was asking one of my friends and they recommended this place for me,
so here I am.
The problem seems to be with my .avi videos when I put them on Windows
Movie Maker. They're videos i spend days downloading for an AMV that I
downloaded from Vuze recently, and they seem to work fine with anything
apart from WMM and Windows DVD Maker (But windows DVD maker is a diff
issue anyway that I wont address here).
I've tried all sorts of things. I unticked "AVI DVD Compressor" because
when I left it ticked, whenever I tried moving .AVI vids to the timeline
it would just say "Windows Movie Maker Has Stopped Working" and close
the whole thing. But unticking it got me atleast somewhere, but now I
face yet another problem.
When I try to play my videos (timelines or not), the audio only comes
and the video is replaced with a transfixed black screen. I've tried all
sorts of codecs and what not, and I'm totally lost now. I dont know
what's wrong, but was wondering if anyone could help me.
Im not too good with Compressors, Decompressors and Codecs and what
have you, but given the instructions I'm good at following them, and
hope to be able to make videos properly soon with my .avi videos.
Oh, and I dont want to convert them because that just makes the quality
worse, as .AVI videos give the best playback quality for me.
Thanks alot,
_xShafski
It sounds to me like you have symptoms of too many codecs
installed. People tend to throw codec packs into PC's and hope that
one of them will work....instead the codecs cause conflicts.
.AVI is a container wrapper...it's an extension that can be given
to any video compressed with any of the codecs in use today....so
AVI can be any of the 800+ flavours.
The trick is to find out which codec was used for the video you
downloaded off the net... I'm not going to try and guess which it is
but there are programs available to work it out.
Once you have worked it out, install only the codec needed and
everything should work.
Hm, are you sure? Because why will they play on windows media play
but not WMM; isn't the same codecs used with both? Apart from AVI
Decompressor which I unfiltered as stated before.
My vid was downloaded from Azureus Vuze, a torrent downloaded, but im
finding it hard to find which codec is right and I'm getting confused
Anybody got any suggestions or help? 
One is a player and the other is an editor...different beasts.
Even on my pro-sumer editor I occasionally come across similar
situations...plays in WINDVD or WMC but put it in an editor and it won't
play.
Just to be on the safe side though make sure you have the latest MS
DirectX (march 2009) installed....this might help
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