WMM2 "Not Responding"

I was having terrible problems with WMM2 freezing up. Ctrl-Alt-Del
under XP gave me program not responding.

I tried all the suggestions of PapaJohn (such this archive is you want
to find them). I had renamed several .ax files and changed my hardware
acceleration. Nothing worked.

I found using the debugger that I had a codec missing in one of the
files. I downloaded a program called gspot from
www.digital-digest.com. This program looks at your avi files and tells
you what codecs they use.

I reviewed all the avi files in my project. The tricky part was this;
gspot may say "three compatible codecs installed", but click for
details and you find that two are listed as incomplete or out of
configuration. Further exploration from gspots codec database shows
that this codec uses one of the .ax files you renamed. Whoops!

Instead of some nice error message like codec not installed, WMM2 just
locks up and does not respond. WMM2 still allows you to add avi files
with unsupported codecs to your project.

My solution was really a work around. I used Windows Media Encoder 9
to read in all these avi files and converted them to wmv files. After
using these instead of the avi files, I did some pretty intense
editing with only two lockups instead of one after each time I played
my movie.

Though this might help.

Thanks. Yes, for much of what we do, we are dealing with work-arounds, not
solutions.

PapaJohn

"jbordel" <jbordel@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> I was having terrible problems with WMM2 freezing up. Ctrl-Alt-Del
> under XP gave me program not responding.
>
> I tried all the suggestions of PapaJohn (such this archive is you want
> to find them). I had renamed several .ax files and changed my hardware
> acceleration. Nothing worked.
>
> I found using the debugger that I had a codec missing in one of the
> files. I downloaded a program called gspot from
> www.digital-digest.com. This program looks at your avi files and tells
> you what codecs they use.
>
> I reviewed all the avi files in my project. The tricky part was this;
> gspot may say "three compatible codecs installed", but click for
> details and you find that two are listed as incomplete or out of
> configuration. Further exploration from gspots codec database shows
> that this codec uses one of the .ax files you renamed. Whoops!
>
> Instead of some nice error message like codec not installed, WMM2 just
> locks up and does not respond. WMM2 still allows you to add avi files
> with unsupported codecs to your project.
>
> My solution was really a work around. I used Windows Media Encoder 9
> to read in all these avi files and converted them to wmv files. After
> using these instead of the avi files, I did some pretty intense
> editing with only two lockups instead of one after each time I played
> my movie.
>
> Though this might help.