MM2 quits at end of loading mswmm

[Ewout Wierda]

Hopefully someone can help with this:

When I want to re-open the project I am working on, MM2
loads much or the whole of the file, but before opening
it, I get a pop-up saying:
"Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Runtime Error!
Program: C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\moviemk.exe
abnormal program termination
OK"
After pressing OK, MM2 quits.

I tried to open an older project I still have, one which
refers to pics and vids no longer there, and that file
opens faultlessly.

I also went on PapaJohn's excellent site, and following
suggestions there, I increased the page file size, I cut
down hardware acceleration to level 3, and I renamed
all .ax files I found listed on the site. Unfortunately,
nothing of that helped.

Admittedly, this time my project is much larger than
previous projects have been. It includes some 275 jpeg's
and about 150 avi's.

My computer has 2000Mhz, 512Mb and MSI NVIDIA Gforce 4,
DirectX 9 and Mediaplayer 9.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Many thanks in advance!

Ewout

 

[John Kelly]

Hi there,

It sounds to me as though the project file has been corrupted and when MM2
reads it, it comes across an instruction that is impossible to complete. If
this is the case you are very likely up the proverbial creak without a paddle.
I have just opened up a project file with notepad and find that as a text file
it is quite impossible to manipulate.

Its easy for me to say...but only because of past disasters....I use an
excelent program called Drive Image 7 (Powerquest) each day it makes two full
backups of everything in a compressed format and on to a spare slow hard drive.
When I get disasters such as yours I simply restore from the most recent
backup...a 1 - 2 minute job. Unlike most NT or XP backup systems you do not
have to reboot your system into a DOS emulator...Drive Image does the whole job
live and in the background.

So as I say, it is easy for me to say...but if you are going to make complex
projects with MM2 you really should make a backup of at least the project file
and more properly all of the files in the project on a very regular basis.

It might be worth your time looking through the knowledge base at
Microsoft...there may be some help there.

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Feel free to email me a copy of the project file (mswmm extension) and I can
test it here to see if it opens OK. That would confirm or rule out it being
corrupt.

PapaJohn

 

[Ewout Wierda]

Thanks! I will certainly do that.

Meanwhile, also in view of the other reply post, I am
checking two other things: I am recreating the project,
now using files imported as they came from the camera, un-
edited.

Ewout

 

[Ewout Wierda]

Hi,

I must admit I have no protection against the corruption
of an important file, only against hard disk problems.

However, when I first got the error (luckily after I had
done no more than put all the files in sequence) I
started from scratch again and saved a new project file.
With that new file, the same error occurred again. I
guess I should have mentioned that!

Ewout

-----Original Message-----
Hi there,

It sounds to me as though the project file has been corrupted and when MM2
reads it, it comes across an instruction that is impossible to complete. If
this is the case you are very likely up the

proverbial creak without a paddle.

I have just opened up a project file with notepad and find that as a text file
it is quite impossible to manipulate.

Its easy for me to say...but only because of past disasters....I use an
excelent program called Drive Image 7

(Powerquest) each day it makes two full

backups of everything in a compressed format and on to a spare slow hard drive.
When I get disasters such as yours I simply restore from the most recent
backup...a 1 - 2 minute job. Unlike most NT or XP backup systems you do not
have to reboot your system into a DOS

emulator...Drive Image does the whole job

live and in the background.

So as I say, it is easy for me to say...but if you are going to make complex
projects with MM2 you really should make a

backup of at least the project file

 

[Ewout Wierda]

With many thanks for the replies already received, I
should add some diagnostic information I partly forgot
and partly could not know yet:

I started the project anew three times, and all three
times it resulted in being able to import files but not
being able to re-open the project after it had been
closed.

Just now, I actually got the error message and program
termination when I was not opening or working on the
project, but importing files. This happened with
downloading files in the format as downloaded from
camera.

I will try converting the files from avi DivX 5.0.5 to
avi Microsoft MPEG 4 v1.
Also, I will try to see what happens if I make projects
of different sizes with the files I used.

Hope this helps helping me!

Thanks,

Ewout

 

[John Kelly]

Ah Ha !!

Verily me think thou hath a gremlin which seeketh to hide in the bowels of thy
magical domicile; thy hard drive.

Peruse and seeketh out this gremlin by utterance of the magical phrase..."I
MUST REMEMBER TO TELL THE FULL STORY"


Dohhhhhh

Seriously...DivX codecs have been known to cause problems.....

You can either get a better DivX Codec or convert your files to AVI or WMV and
proceed from there.

If it pleaseth you Sire,Your most humble servant

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

At this point, I agree with John Kelly.... seems like a codec issue and not
a corrupt project file.

I usually make WMV files from Divx or MPEG2 files and then use the WMV files
in my projects. If you don't, then something could bite you at any time.

PapaJohn

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

I received your two project files, and they opened fine in MM2 on my
laptop.... of course I can't see much without the source files but they
played smoothly without them.

So it reiterates it being issues with your source files.... codec stuff...
which you have to wrestle with individually and personally.

Converting the source files from MPEG and Divx and doing it over might be
the easiest and quickest solution in the long run.... but if you have the
time to get and install more codecs first, it might work.

Thanks for emailing the project files.


PapaJohn