Mpeg file - sound but no picture

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OK, I'm having yet more problems! I've downloaded my clips alright, and
theyre burning onto dvds when I use a different software. However when I
import a video clip using movie maker the sound is fine but there's no
picture. it's an mpeg2 file.

any idea what could be going wrong?
 
Same Problem no answers :-(
us british people have to search the us one just to get a hint of trying to
find the answer :-(
 
It is aknown issue that movie maker does not work properly with the MPEG2
format files. The mpeg2 codecs generally available are optimized for
playback and do not support editing. In theory you may be able to obtain a
better codec (which could be pricy) and then it would work. Otherwise you
need to convert these clips to WMV or AVI and then edit them in MM. However
it is more likely that after editing you would want the output in MPEG2
format to make a DVD. This would require another lengthy conversion as MM
does not save in MPEG2 format.

To avoid the conversion steps consider using an editor that can work
directly in MPEG2 format such as Cuttermaran and VideoReDo.
 
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