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[Guest]

When I bring an ASF video into Movie Maker 2.0 it plays fine. But when I put the clip into the story board and play it from there, it plays double time, or at least the audio is playing double time. It makes everyone sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks. Any setting I can make to make it play correctly

This chipmunk effect is kept in exported videos, making it virtually unusable

Thanks for any advice, Dan

 

[Dean Rowe [MS]]

We have seen this with some versions of WinDVD installed. Do you have
that installed?

If so, see http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;814837

If you don't want to upgrade your version of WinDVD, although it's not
supported, you should also be able to fix it by renaming a couple of files.
In your WinDVD program directory you should see the two files iviaudio.ax &
ivivideo.ax, rename them to something like _iviaudio.ax & _ivideo.ax. Do
your stuff in MovieMaker and when you want to go back to WinDVD rename those
two files back again.
Regards
Dean Rowe
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When I bring an ASF video into Movie Maker 2.0 it plays fine. But when I

put the clip into the story board and play it from there, it plays double
time, or at least the audio is playing double time. It makes everyone sound
like Alvin and the Chipmunks. Any setting I can make to make it play
correctly?

 

[John Kelly]

Hi there,

When I bring an ASF video into Movie Maker 2.0 it plays fine. But when I

put the clip into the story board and play it from there, it plays double
time, or at least the audio is playing double time. It makes everyone sound
like Alvin and the Chipmunks. Any setting I can make to make it play
correctly?

This chipmunk effect is kept in exported videos, making it virtually unusable.

Thanks for any advice, Dan

This may be a codec issue. You can download a program written by me that
will allow you to temporarily rename suspect codecs so that if it is one of
them causing you a problem you will be able to use moviemaker trouble free.
Afterwards you can again use my program to rename these codecs back to their
original names...you do not need to know anything about renaming files to
use this program...it does it all for you.

Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org

 

[Guest]

John and Dean

Thanks very much for your replies. The combination of the two have solved the problem. This machine does have WinDVD on it, and a patch from Dell wasn't enough to solve the problem (didn't want to upgrade from v4 to v5 at this time). So I tried renaming the files, but it didn't work.

Next I tried John's program, which showed there were two copies of the codec files - I had only found one of each and evidently all copies (or at least the ones I hadn't renamed) need to be renamed. Once this was done the chipmunks went away and Movie Maker worked as expected

Thanks so much to both of you

Dan

 

[John Kelly]

Hi there

John and Dean,

Thanks very much for your replies. The combination of the two have solved

the problem. This machine does have WinDVD on it, and a patch from Dell
wasn't enough to solve the problem (didn't want to upgrade from v4 to v5 at
this time). So I tried renaming the files, but it didn't work.

Next I tried John's program, which showed there were two copies of the

codec files - I had only found one of each and evidently all copies (or at
least the ones I hadn't renamed) need to be renamed. Once this was done the
chipmunks went away and Movie Maker worked as expected.

Great Stuff, pleased it worked out for you.

Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org