playback of wmv freezes in Win Med Player and on DVD

[Guest]

I have a 30 minute movie that I saved in MM2, which plays through just fine in MM, but the saved file (wmv) freezes part way through when playing in Media Player as well as when playing the DVD, which was created using Sonic's MyDVD. The spot where it freezes varies.

 

[Dean Rowe [MS]]

I have seen other reports of this behaviour especially on timelines with a
lot of transitions.

Sometimes just trying to save your movie again will work, as it doesn't
always repro 100% of the time. If in your case it is consistenly failing
then the other suggestion I have is to save your movie as a DV-AVI file
first. To do this, when you're on the Movie Settings page choose "Other
Settings" and select DV-AVI from the list (if Other Settings isn't visible
then click "Show more choices...").

Play back the resultant DV-AVI file to make sure that it's OK. If you
ultimately want a DVD, you should be able to import that DV-AVI file into
Sonic MyDVD. If you want to save it as a WMV file to save disk space you can
also import the DV-AVI file back into MovieMaker, drag it down to the
timeline then publish it again as a WMV file with your choice of profile.

Hope this helps
Dean Rowe
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