WMM Clip Playback

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Until just recently I was able to play any clip froman imported video. Now I
can only play the first clip from the collection. The rest will say they are
playing, but will be frozen on the first frame. Please help! This is making
editing very hard!
 
They are "Windows Media Audio/Video" files. Until just last week or so I
never had this problem. I could always play any of the clips without
combining them to the first clip. I am 99.9% sure I have not made any
changes to the porgram itself. Since this problem began I have messed with
some settings that I am familiar with, but nothing has given me the ablity to
preview each clip individually back.
 
Windows Media Audio/Video files isn't actually the type of file. They are
labeled as that because they are designated to play in Windows Media Player.
Using Windows Explorer to look at the files if you can't see the file
extension then you need to change how files are viewed. To do that click on
Tools -> Folder Options. Click the [View] tab and remove the checkmark next
to "Hide extensions for known file types"
Then look at the file again and there should be a 3 digit extension at the
end of the filename.
This is what Graham needed to know when asking about the type of file.

I will say though that if WMM worked with these same video files before but
doesn't now then I would try disabling the codec's/filters being used by the
program to see if that fixes the problem or not.
To do that in Movie Maker click on Tools -> Options.
Click the [Compatibility] tab and remove the checkmarks next to all the
filters.
Close and reopen Movie Maker and see if your clips play properly.
If they do then place a checkmark back in front of each filter one at a time
until the problem returns, if it returns, and you will know which one caused
the issue.
 
They are .wmv files. I unchecked all of the extensions and the problem still
persists. Any other ideas?

Wojo said:
Windows Media Audio/Video files isn't actually the type of file. They are
labeled as that because they are designated to play in Windows Media Player.
Using Windows Explorer to look at the files if you can't see the file
extension then you need to change how files are viewed. To do that click on
Tools -> Folder Options. Click the [View] tab and remove the checkmark next
to "Hide extensions for known file types"
Then look at the file again and there should be a 3 digit extension at the
end of the filename.
This is what Graham needed to know when asking about the type of file.

I will say though that if WMM worked with these same video files before but
doesn't now then I would try disabling the codec's/filters being used by the
program to see if that fixes the problem or not.
To do that in Movie Maker click on Tools -> Options.
Click the [Compatibility] tab and remove the checkmarks next to all the
filters.
Close and reopen Movie Maker and see if your clips play properly.
If they do then place a checkmark back in front of each filter one at a time
until the problem returns, if it returns, and you will know which one caused
the issue.
--
-Wojo
MVP - Digital Media
Wojo's Web:
http://www.wojos-web.co.nr/


FSUDave1 said:
They are "Windows Media Audio/Video" files. Until just last week or so I
never had this problem. I could always play any of the clips without
combining them to the first clip. I am 99.9% sure I have not made any
changes to the porgram itself. Since this problem began I have messed
with
some settings that I am familiar with, but nothing has given me the ablity
to
preview each clip individually back.
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The only other thing I can think of right off is that there may be an
indexing problem if this is only a specific video you are having problems
with. You could open the file in Media Encoder and reindex it.
You can get Windows Media Encoder here:
http://tinyurl.com/6uo2e

If it is with ALL videos then there is something else wrong and maybe doing
a system restore back to a point when it all worked will solve the problem.

Alternately try installing SP2 over itself. You can download it here:
http://tinyurl.com/5bobl

Another thing to try, although I don't think this is the problem, is to
reregister the DLL's
See this article on my website:
http://tinyurl.com/haq54

--
-Wojo
MVP - Digital Media
Wojo's Web:
http://www.wojos-web.co.nr/


FSUDave1 said:
They are .wmv files. I unchecked all of the extensions and the problem
still
persists. Any other ideas?

Wojo said:
Windows Media Audio/Video files isn't actually the type of file. They are
labeled as that because they are designated to play in Windows Media
Player.
Using Windows Explorer to look at the files if you can't see the file
extension then you need to change how files are viewed. To do that click
on
Tools -> Folder Options. Click the [View] tab and remove the checkmark
next
to "Hide extensions for known file types"
Then look at the file again and there should be a 3 digit extension at
the
end of the filename.
This is what Graham needed to know when asking about the type of file.

I will say though that if WMM worked with these same video files before
but
doesn't now then I would try disabling the codec's/filters being used by
the
program to see if that fixes the problem or not.
To do that in Movie Maker click on Tools -> Options.
Click the [Compatibility] tab and remove the checkmarks next to all the
filters.
Close and reopen Movie Maker and see if your clips play properly.
If they do then place a checkmark back in front of each filter one at a
time
until the problem returns, if it returns, and you will know which one
caused
the issue.
--
-Wojo
MVP - Digital Media
Wojo's Web:
http://www.wojos-web.co.nr/


FSUDave1 said:
They are "Windows Media Audio/Video" files. Until just last week or so
I
never had this problem. I could always play any of the clips without
combining them to the first clip. I am 99.9% sure I have not made any
changes to the porgram itself. Since this problem began I have messed
with
some settings that I am familiar with, but nothing has given me the
ablity
to
preview each clip individually back.



:

You don't say what sort of files they are, it may be they are not
compatible
with MM, see here
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/File_type_compatibility.htm

--

Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


Until just recently I was able to play any clip froman imported
video.
Now I
can only play the first clip from the collection. The rest will say
they
are
playing, but will be frozen on the first frame. Please help! This
is
making
editing very hard!
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