Audio plays at half speed in timeline

[Guest]

On all of my computers (all are Win XP SP2), when I edit AVI files from my
MiniDV camcorder, the clips play fine in the Collections, but when I drag a
clip to the timeline and play the timeline, the audio plays at HALF SPEED. On
one of the computers, every other clip on the timeline goes half speed. On
the other three computers they all go half speed.

This happens with AVI files that I put on my computer a year ago and .mswmm
files that I haven't touched in a while. These same files worked before but
don't now.

Other people have been having this problem recently, too:

http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=31140

Any ideas?

 

[Graham Hughes]

There are several different problems in that thread. Have you addd any
codecs, codec packs, other video/audio related software etc since it worked
properly?

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[Guest]

Yes, I am using AceMegaCodecsPack on all these machines.

I don't recall if I was using it when I copied these AVIs from my MiniDV
camcorder and succcessfully did some video editing. If I was using it then,
it was a different version.

 

[Graham Hughes]

I don't recommend using codec packs as they can come full of crapware and
codecs which you don't need and can cause problems like this. Try system
restore back to before it was installed.

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com

 

[Guest]

I don't know how to set or return to restore points, but on two of the
machines I did uninstall AceMegaCodecsPack and suddenly almost everything
works fine.

The only codec I seem to be lacking now is DivX, so I got that from divx.com.

The last remaining issue is that one of the machines, if I start a clip
playing in the Collections, it doesn't show the video until I resize the
playback window. I have to do this on each clip. It's a pain. Things work
fine from the timeline, though. Any ideas?

Thanks for your help!
DaveMc

 

[Graham Hughes]

Could still be a codec issue with that. Have you updated the graphics
drivers for the card, from the manufacturer of the card? Also directx is the
latest version.
See here for using system restore
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/Tutorials.htm

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com