Terry
Tue Sep 11 01:43:20 CDT 2007
"John Inzer" <oobie@doobie.xyz> wrote:
>Terry Pinnell wrote:
>> Just opened MovieMaker 2 and tried to import a 24 MB DVD-ready MPEG
>> file. But got message "The file xxxx is an empty file." Yet it
>> certainly is not! Plays fine in all my players and in
>> VirtualDub-MPEG2. GSpot doesn't show any errors either.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas please?
>================================
>Maybe these articles will offer some ideas:
>
>Movie Maker 2 - Importing MPEG Files
>
http://tinyurl.com/eajjh
Thanks John. For any others who end up googling here with a similar
problem, the first of those included this advice:
"[MPEG2 files] are widely used for digital television, DVD, and HDTV.
But they don't work well with Movie Maker and should be converted to
AVI files before importing and using as source files."
I used VirtualDub-MPEG2 to convert to AVI (enormous size) and happily
that was OK when imported to MM.
>File type compatibility with Movie Maker
>
http://tinyurl.com/v8tee
>
>Converting MPEG-2 files - Part 1
>(for Importing)
>
http://tinyurl.com/ycv5x7
>
>Converting MPEG-2 files - Part II
>(Ripping/Converting DVDs)
>
http://tinyurl.com/yjyzk9
>
>Converting MPEG-2 files - Part III
>(from Recorded TV to Movie Maker)
>
http://tinyurl.com/bfkep
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Terry, West Sussex, UK