Xvid-encoded avis and "has encountered a problem"

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(also posted on the WMM.net forums - I'm pretty desperate here)

I'm really new to this, and I was having such a great time until I found
that WMM absolutely refuses to take the entre second season of the show I was
taking clips from. I get "WMM has encountered a problem and needs to close"
every single time I try to import one of these episodes.

I have done a few hours worth of reading and searching, but the common
solution to this common problem don't seem to work for me: I've un-checked
every single filter in Tools > Options > Compatibility. Could it still be a
problem codec with everything un-checked?

papajohn.org also says "A video clip with an .avi extension might be a
DV-AVI file that should work... or an Xvid encoded one that doesn't."
According to Gspot, these episodes are Xvid-encoded. BUT, so are all of the
first season, and they import to WMM just fine!

So, I've no idea what the exact problem is. Do I need to change something
about WMM to get these files to import? Do I need to change something
somewhere else on my computer (rename files perhaps? Only, I thought you
didn't have to do that if you had WMM 2.1 - that un-checking would
suffice...)? Do I need to convert/recompress these files? If the latter,
what's the best way to do that? Will they lose quality?


I would reeeeallly appreciate help with this. I had so wanted to make this
little video, and was super excited upon figuring out the basics of WMM. Then
this great big brick wall...
 
There are some funny interactions with XviD, that's for sure. I
personally have not had any problem getting Moviemaker to accept XviD
avi files, but the encoder/interface I've been using (Gordian Knot)
will not accept a Moviemaker AVI file to encode back to XviD.

As an aside, I cannot drop DivX files directly into Moviemaker, but if
I just change the extension from .divx to .avi it works fine with no
other tweaks.

Strange world.

Martin
 
goat_song said:
(also posted on the WMM.net forums - I'm pretty desperate
here)

I'm really new to this, and I was having such a great
time until I found that WMM absolutely refuses to take
the entre second season of the show I was taking clips
from. I get "WMM has encountered a problem and needs to
close" every single time I try to import one of these
episodes.

I have done a few hours worth of reading and searching,
but the common solution to this common problem don't seem
to work for me: I've un-checked every single filter in
Tools > Options > Compatibility. Could it still be a
problem codec with everything un-checked?

papajohn.org also says "A video clip with an .avi
extension might be a DV-AVI file that should work...
or an Xvid encoded one that doesn't." According to
Gspot, these episodes are Xvid-encoded. BUT, so are all
of the first season, and they import to WMM just fine!

So, I've no idea what the exact problem is. Do I need to
change something about WMM to get these files to import?
Do I need to change something somewhere else on my
computer (rename files perhaps? Only, I thought you
didn't have to do that if you had WMM 2.1 - that
un-checking would suffice...)? Do I need to
convert/recompress these files? If the latter, what's the
best way to do that? Will they lose quality?


I would reeeeallly appreciate help with this. I had so
wanted to make this little video, and was super excited
upon figuring out the basics of WMM. Then this great big
brick wall...
Click to expand...
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Just for reference...you may want to read
the messages about Xvid files in the thread
at following link about :
http://tinyurl.com/z8xju

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me may not work for you.

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