HaTcH
Mon Mar 01 14:40:44 CST 2004
Movie Maker 2's WMV utility saves movies with the codec windows media 9.0.
Theres two options:
1.)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/default.asp and
install the media 9 codecs on the other computers or
2.)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/WM7/encoder.aspx
and save your movies as the highest quality WMV from MM2, and then use this
program to convert to media 8 codec. Please note, everytime you convert a
file, there is some quality loss, so if you have the software and ambition,
you can produce as a DV-AVI and then use another program to decompress this
to a raw AVI and then use the encoder to convert the new AVI to media 8 or
7. If you go this route, I recomend dropping the WMV file, and save the AVI
as an MPG. oNew of my favorite freeware apps for this is located at
http://www.mnsi.net/~jschlic1 (Called avi2vcd [ala mpeg 1]
Also: your WMV CD will not play back in most stand alone component DVD/VCD
players, although some might.
"Sonia" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4bd901c3ffb3$44ea71f0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> I just started using Movie Maker. I am trying to create a
> CD with titles, pictures and audio in the background.
> I save to a recordable CD and it gives me a WMV file. The
> CD plays fine on the computer where I created this
> project with media player (version 9). However, when I
> play the CD on my laptop or other computer, media player
> recognizes the file, there a one quick error message
> about downloading and then it plays the file with no
> audio or
> video. These other computers have media player versions 7
> and 8. In the About Help my movie maker shows version 5.1
> and also version 2.0.3312.0.
>
> I checked out Papa John's site but could not find answer
> to my problem. The site mentions saving to DV-AVI format
> but when I try to save I do not see any format options.
> The file defaults to WMV. Please Help!