Importing MPEG - MM says 'empty file'

  • Thread starter Thread starter Terry Pinnell
  • Start date Start date
T

Terry Pinnell

Just opened MovieMaker 2 and tried to import a 24 MB DVD-ready MPEG
file. But got message "The file xxxx is an empty file." Yet it
certainly is not! Plays fine in all my players and in
VirtualDub-MPEG2. GSpot doesn't show any errors either.

Anyone have any ideas please?
 
Terry said:
Just opened MovieMaker 2 and tried to import a 24 MB DVD-ready MPEG
file. But got message "The file xxxx is an empty file." Yet it
certainly is not! Plays fine in all my players and in
VirtualDub-MPEG2. GSpot doesn't show any errors either.

Anyone have any ideas please?
Click to expand...
================================
Maybe these articles will offer some ideas:

Movie Maker 2 - Importing MPEG Files
http://tinyurl.com/eajjh

File type compatibility with Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/v8tee

Converting MPEG-2 files - Part 1
(for Importing)
http://tinyurl.com/ycv5x7

Converting MPEG-2 files - Part II
(Ripping/Converting DVDs)
http://tinyurl.com/yjyzk9

Converting MPEG-2 files - Part III
(from Recorded TV to Movie Maker)
http://tinyurl.com/bfkep

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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
 
John Inzer said:
================================
Maybe these articles will offer some ideas:

Movie Maker 2 - Importing MPEG Files
http://tinyurl.com/eajjh
Click to expand...

Thanks John. For any others who end up googling here with a similar
problem, the first of those included this advice:

"[MPEG2 files] are widely used for digital television, DVD, and HDTV.
But they don't work well with Movie Maker and should be converted to
AVI files before importing and using as source files."

I used VirtualDub-MPEG2 to convert to AVI (enormous size) and happily
that was OK when imported to MM.
 
Terry said:
Thanks John. For any others who end up googling here with a similar
problem, the first of those included this advice:

"[MPEG2 files] are widely used for digital television, DVD, and HDTV.
But they don't work well with Movie Maker and should be converted to
AVI files before importing and using as source files."

I used VirtualDub-MPEG2 to convert to AVI (enormous size) and happily
that was OK when imported to MM.
Click to expand...
======================
You're welcome.

Thanks for the feedback.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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
 
Back
Top