| 29 Mar 2008 12:21 am |
Racku Guest | WMM wrote:
The file C:\Users\Public\Videos\Episodes\08. Battle of the Bands - Little Rock of Horror - Dream a Little Dream.avi cannot be imported because the codec required to play the file is not installed on your computer. If you have already tried to download and install the codec, close and restart Windows Movie Maker, and then try to import the file again.
How do you fix this? It doesnt play in Media Player either. I recently went through my vista and uninstalled some programs I didn’t need which means I’m 100% Divx worked for me. I think I might have deleted a program before that made it work, and am certain that it isn’t Divx.
I tried downloading VLC Media Player, Xvid, AC3 filter and a million other programs suggested to me on yahoo.answers, but none of them worked except for VLC Media Player, which was the only one that actually fixed Media Player problem, but it still doesn’t work in Movie Maker! Please, please help!
(sorry if I dont understand, I’m still learning! and I’m new to these forums, so if there are any rules I’ve broken, I’m truely sorry!)
Thankyou.
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| | 29 Mar 2008 02:25 am |
Regular Rep: 3 Joined: 20 Nov 2004 Posts: 1,239 | Scenario 1: Missing codec
The thing with VLC is it has its own codecs bundled with the player. Movie Maker (and Windows Media Player) require system-wide codecs (even if it’s in the form of filters, like ffdshow-tryouts - but they need to be available to Windows).
Best thing to do would probably feed into a diagnostic utility like gspot or avicodec. Once you find out what codec the file you can’t open uses, you can download it and install it, and the file should be openable in WMM.
Scenario 2: Truncated AVI
VLC Media Player is neat in that in can play truncated AVI files (meaning the file length is incorrect: usually too short). It will give a warning, but people will usually turn it off, because they don’t care what the problem is, so long as the file can be played! Windows Media Player can’t play AVI’s of incorrect length, even if you have the right codec installed, and I’m fairly sure Windows Movie Maker can’t read them either. If you’re unsure whether your file is of incorrect length or not, feed it into one of the diagnostic utilities listed above.
If you have a truncated AVI, here’s how to fix it. Get NanDub. Open your file in NanDub, and click video, direct stream copy. Then click file, save as avi and give it a name. The copy you saved should be readable by WMM (although it may be difficult to seek if you’re just playing it back).
And there’s always a chance you have a combo of the two. Then you need both to download the codec and to fix the file length.
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