Cant see any video

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I am using the latest Movie Maker, and i cannot see any video's in the preview box aswell as transitions - they just dont show. I have a friend who has the exact same program and it works fine so howcome mine isnt? I am on an Excel Pentium M 1.4Ghz which is 2months old. If anyone has a clue what's going on please get back to me. Thanks heaps guys
 
Hi there,

Try this out...

Go to the microsoft website and download the FULL version of Windows Media
Player 9 and DirectX version 9.0b. Then reboot your computer and install
DirectX and reboot again and install Windows media player. Reboot a final
time and only then try Movie Maker.

It is important that you get the full versions of these programs and that
you do not get tempted to see if the first file fixed things before
installing the second file

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I have the same problem, it works fine on my laptop at home but am having difficulties on my desktop at work. The videos all play perfectly fine in Windows Media Player but I get nothing in Movie Maker and it practically kills the processor. If I go into task manager and then exit it will sometimes show a distorted preview but nothing like it should. I'm not sure how, but I wonder if it's related to being on a network.
 
Hi there,

The design of laptops is such that they were never intended to play full
motion video...the fact that you can is more an accident than a design.
Microsoft have produced a number of papers on the subject that refer to the
laptop technology , battery power saving designs and the type of processor
in the machine.

You can "make" a laptop play full motion video, but only at the expense
of the laptops features. Basically you change the settings so that you end
up with a very expensive desktop computer and not a portable laptop.

Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk

TimmyB said:
I have the same problem, it works fine on my laptop at home but am having
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difficulties on my desktop at work. The videos all play perfectly fine in
Windows Media Player but I get nothing in Movie Maker and it practically
kills the processor. If I go into task manager and then exit it will
sometimes show a distorted preview but nothing like it should. I'm not sure
how, but I wonder if it's related to being on a network.
 
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