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I've been having frequent problems with WMM freezing up and crashing on me.
Losing unsaved work is annoying, but saving after every edit is moreso. Is
this program typically buggy?

Thanks,

Still a Newbie
 
Claybie2 said:
I've been having frequent problems with WMM freezing up and crashing on me.
Losing unsaved work is annoying, but saving after every edit is moreso. Is
this program typically buggy?

Thanks,

Still a Newbie
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I am also concerned about this crashing problem. I am not using anything
that seems unusual. Currently my movie is about 6 minutes and 20 seconds
long. No still shots...... but quite a few short movie clips with normal
fades, titles etc. and an occassional background musical edit. Sometimes I
can work long periods of time without crashing..... but like tonight it hung
up so often and I had to keep re booting that I stopped trying and decided to
see if there was any help here. I go to the task manager and end task.....
but then have to start over again from an earlier project save. Any help
would also be appreciated. New Dell computer, Windows XP, 256 Meg of
memoryl. It is a Dell Latitude 600 not sure of processor speed, but I
believe speed should be adequate. Love Movie maker 2.1 just this one
problem. Sometimes I can edit and be in the program for several hours and
no problems. I completely shut down the computer, shut down any other
applications running... and tonight still had same lock up problems. Thanks.
 
Hello there,

You sound as though you are suffering from a codec problem. There are two
root
causes and below you will find the solution for each together with some
notes
on other issues.

Option 1)

The one stop solution for that is a program called Rename Codecs and it is
available from my web site (Free). Make sure you check out the FAQ, on the
site, on what it does and how to run it (That will take about one minute of
your time!!) All the info you need is on the web site. The latest version
is
1.51.

This reassuringly safe to use program requires no knowledge on your part
about
what it is doing or how it is doing it or what it is doing it too!!!
neither do
you need to know where any of these files are or whether it is safe to
rename
them or not.....and best of all, ITS FREE !!!

Option 2)

If this does not solve your problem then try the following out...it has
proved
to be a successful procedure for a variety of problems.

1) Download the full version of DirectX Ver 9.0c, Media Player 9 (10 if you
prefer), and Service Pack 2(SP2).

2) Reboot you computer and Install DirectX

3) Reboot again and install Windows Media Player

4) Reboot yet again and install Service Pack 2

5) Reboot one more time

Yes it sounds very tedious, but if you want to be certain all file locks
are
removed so that the correct files can be installed this is the way you have
to
go.

It is very important that you only download the full versions of these
programs
and that you DO NOT attempt an install over the internet.

Other Notes
===========
Graphic Card Acceleration
-------------------------

There is advice floating around that you should disable the graphics
acceleration abilities of your graphics card if Movie Maker locks up or
crashes
out. Doing this is roughly equivalent to taking out your current graphics
card
and replacing it with one that is several years old....this is not the way
forward!

The Graphics card on the machine I edit on is a cut above the average, it
has
DV In & Out as well as Video In & Out. It does all sorts of clever things
and
it is extremely fast. Then the day came when I tried Movie Maker 2 for the
first time. It was a disaster. Knowing what the problem was I immediately
logged on to Microsoft and got the latest driver. There was no change with
the
performance of the Graphics card with respect to Movie Maker. After a lot
of
messing about I went to the cards manufacturer and downloaded there most
recent
driver. I was convinced that the one from Microsoft was in some way
defective.
It turned out that I was right but for the wrong reason.

The version of the driver from Microsoft was more recent than the one on my
system AND more recent than the one from the OEM.BUT, the OEM had made
minor
changes to how the card worked and these were not taken into consideration
by
the Microsoft update!!!

So, do not get the generic update from Microsoft until you have tried the
latest driver from the manufacturer of your card.

Registration
------------

There is in my view some very bad advice floating around that tells you to
unregister the offending codec. If you take this advise be warned that
unregistering any file and doing it wrong will more than likely stop the
program that file belongs to from working all together and may in an
extreme
situation cause your entire XP system to fail. This is true whether you
make a
mistake using the Registry editor or the registration program itself, one
mistake and you are potentially in deep trouble. Whatever you unregister in
this manner has to be restored and you should take note that the
registration
of a codec can often involve more than one registry entry. If you are
expert in
these matters you will have no problem.

I have also found that MP3, Mpeg and Jpeg files can cause problems, So...

Convert all MP3 to WAV or WMA

Convert all MPeg to AVI

Convert all Jpeg to BMP

Video Conversion
----------------

For Video Conversion you should also check out the Knowledge Base Section
of my
"Great Links > Knowledge Base" One of the website's in there called "Video
Help" has the best collection of useful information I have yet come across
on
converting between the various formats together with links to the software
needed.
 
Hello there,

You sound as though you are suffering from a codec problem. There are two
root
causes and below you will find the solution for each together with some
notes
on other issues.

Option 1)

The one stop solution for that is a program called Rename Codecs and it is
available from my web site (Free). Make sure you check out the FAQ, on the
site, on what it does and how to run it (That will take about one minute of
your time!!) All the info you need is on the web site. The latest version
is
1.51.

This reassuringly safe to use program requires no knowledge on your part
about
what it is doing or how it is doing it or what it is doing it too!!!
neither do
you need to know where any of these files are or whether it is safe to
rename
them or not.....and best of all, ITS FREE !!!

Option 2)

If this does not solve your problem then try the following out...it has
proved
to be a successful procedure for a variety of problems.

1) Download the full version of DirectX Ver 9.0c, Media Player 9 (10 if you
prefer), and Service Pack 2(SP2).

2) Reboot you computer and Install DirectX

3) Reboot again and install Windows Media Player

4) Reboot yet again and install Service Pack 2

5) Reboot one more time

Yes it sounds very tedious, but if you want to be certain all file locks
are
removed so that the correct files can be installed this is the way you have
to
go.

It is very important that you only download the full versions of these
programs
and that you DO NOT attempt an install over the internet.

Other Notes
===========
Graphic Card Acceleration
-------------------------

There is advice floating around that you should disable the graphics
acceleration abilities of your graphics card if Movie Maker locks up or
crashes
out. Doing this is roughly equivalent to taking out your current graphics
card
and replacing it with one that is several years old....this is not the way
forward!

The Graphics card on the machine I edit on is a cut above the average, it
has
DV In & Out as well as Video In & Out. It does all sorts of clever things
and
it is extremely fast. Then the day came when I tried Movie Maker 2 for the
first time. It was a disaster. Knowing what the problem was I immediately
logged on to Microsoft and got the latest driver. There was no change with
the
performance of the Graphics card with respect to Movie Maker. After a lot
of
messing about I went to the cards manufacturer and downloaded there most
recent
driver. I was convinced that the one from Microsoft was in some way
defective.
It turned out that I was right but for the wrong reason.

The version of the driver from Microsoft was more recent than the one on my
system AND more recent than the one from the OEM.BUT, the OEM had made
minor
changes to how the card worked and these were not taken into consideration
by
the Microsoft update!!!

So, do not get the generic update from Microsoft until you have tried the
latest driver from the manufacturer of your card.

Registration
------------

There is in my view some very bad advice floating around that tells you to
unregister the offending codec. If you take this advise be warned that
unregistering any file and doing it wrong will more than likely stop the
program that file belongs to from working all together and may in an
extreme
situation cause your entire XP system to fail. This is true whether you
make a
mistake using the Registry editor or the registration program itself, one
mistake and you are potentially in deep trouble. Whatever you unregister in
this manner has to be restored and you should take note that the
registration
of a codec can often involve more than one registry entry. If you are
expert in
these matters you will have no problem.

I have also found that MP3, Mpeg and Jpeg files can cause problems, So...

Convert all MP3 to WAV or WMA

Convert all MPeg to AVI

Convert all Jpeg to BMP

Video Conversion
----------------

For Video Conversion you should also check out the Knowledge Base Section
of my
"Great Links > Knowledge Base" One of the website's in there called "Video
Help" has the best collection of useful information I have yet come across
on
converting between the various formats together with links to the software
needed.
 
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