drimyxx
Thu Feb 09 18:08:30 CST 2006
I checked where your site said to check and it was already set to "DMA if
available". Is there any possibility that DMA would be UNavailable? (pardon
my comp-illiteracy)
"PapaJohn (MVP)" wrote:
> Did you check to see if DMA is enabled on the new drive? see the Setup Movie
> Maker > Hardware page of my site... the Hard Drive section.
> --
> PapaJohn
>
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> "dri_myxx" <drimyxx@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:05E73CDE-693B-465F-B537-89DDC0DF0F1B@microsoft.com...
> > No, the clips are AVI's with MPEG-3 sound. WMM always worked with these
> > files before my hard drive became damaged and we got a new one. I
> > literally
> > had gigabytes worth of clips in my Collections and it would run fine
> > (albeit
> > taking a second or two to prepare them). After replacing the drive, I put
> > the same files back on the computer, but WMM just didn't work the way it
> > had
> > on my old drive.
> >
> > I imported a small BMP file (the only file that would be in Collections),
> > closed WMM, and opened it back up 3 or 4 times without any problems. I
> > then
> > went and removed the small BMP and imported 4 or 5 significantly larger
> > BMP's
> > and it would hang on start up. If it really is the files that are causing
> > this problem, then I don't understand why it wouldn't have been hanging on
> > my
> > previous drive.
> >
> > "PapaJohn (MVP)" wrote:
> >
> >> I have to wonder if the clips you're trying to use are things like MPEG-2
> >> files that don't work in Movie Maker... does the same thing happen if you
> >> import a BMP file?
> >> --
> >> PapaJohn
> >>
> >> Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 website -
http://www.papajohn.org
> >> MM2 Tips and Tricks:
> >>
http://www.simplydv.co.uk/simplyBB/viewtopic.php?t=4693
> >> Online Newsletters:
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/PapaJohn/Index.aspx
> >>
> >> "dri_myxx" <dri_myxx@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:4B577E03-647D-4E3E-B2EB-6C14516978E0@microsoft.com...
> >> > When I open WMM 2.1, as soon as I click on something, the program
> >> > hangs.
> >> > It
> >> > has been this way since I had to replace my hard drive. I have been to
> >> > PapaJohn's WMM site and nothing posted there seemed to help. So I have
> >> > come
> >> > to believe that it is NOT a codec issue (at least not one of the 20
> >> > listed
> >> > on
> >> > PapaJohn's site)
> >> >
> >> > The only way I am able to get WMM 2.1 to run is to first remove the
> >> > MEDIATAB*.DAT file in the folder C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local
> >> > Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Movie Maker. But this is absurd
> >> > because
> >> > the MEDIATAB*.DAT file contains all the data on the clips I had in the
> >> > Collections folders, so upon removing this file, I have no clips to use
> >> > and
> >> > have to re-import them. But it is no guarantee that the program will
> >> > not
> >> > hang when I go to edit the clips. Even so, the next time I go to run
> >> > WMM,
> >> > it
> >> > hangs, and I must once again remove the MEDIATAB*.DAT file if I wish to
> >> > use
> >> > the program.
> >> >
> >> > Is there anyone who can think of a permanent solution that allows me to
> >> > keep
> >> > the clips in the Collections folders? Because it defeats the purpose
> >> > of
> >> > getting the program to run if I have to remove the clips. It's like
> >> > trading
> >> > in the cart for a horse to pull it.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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