Cannot play movies saved as "DV-AVI "

[Guest]

I have created a movie and saved it as a DV-AVI file, but when I play it back using Windows Media Player, the video vibrates up and down and the sound breaks up. By "breaks up" I mean the sound cuts out and then pops back again about once or twice per second. When I save my movie under the 2.1 (NTSC) option, the quality of the entire movie is great.

I want to save it as a DV-AVI file because I intend to save it to DVD using Roxio DVD Builder. The Roxio program keeps giving me a warning message that I need to use a DV-AVI file or the movie will not run in my TV DVD player. I have tried saving the movie under every possible format in Movie Maker 2 and imported every one of them into the Roxio program, but not one of the DVD burns was successful. The best I got from any of these combinations was excellent video with "broken up" sound. Also, I have tried playing the DVD's on nine different TV DVD players.

Strangely, the DVDs I burn work great in my computer's DVD drive.

I have defragmented my hard drive, and reinstalled all of the software discussed above. I checked my "IDE" settings as well.

The sound files I am importing into MM2 are .wma files downloaded from Rhapsody. I'm running XP on an Emachines T1600 with an AMD Athlon 1.41 GHz processor and 736 MB of RAM.

Thanks.

 

[Graham Hughes, MVP Digital Media]

I'm a little confused as to what has been tested and what works and doesn't.
You have burned a dvd and it works perfectly in the dvd player on the pc.
This proves that the dvd burnig process was good and the file is ok. It is
then down to perfecting the technique to suit the dvd players for the tv.
Check www.dvdrhelp for compatibility with the payers you have tested on.
Can you give details of the type of disc, the bitrates used etc?
Graham

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

I have created a movie and saved it as a DV-AVI file, but when I play it

back using Windows Media Player, the video vibrates up and down and the
sound breaks up. By "breaks up" I mean the sound cuts out and then pops
back again about once or twice per second. When I save my movie under the
2.1 (NTSC) option, the quality of the entire movie is great.

I want to save it as a DV-AVI file because I intend to save it to DVD

using Roxio DVD Builder. The Roxio program keeps giving me a warning
message that I need to use a DV-AVI file or the movie will not run in my TV
DVD player. I have tried saving the movie under every possible format in
Movie Maker 2 and imported every one of them into the Roxio program, but not
one of the DVD burns was successful. The best I got from any of these
combinations was excellent video with "broken up" sound. Also, I have tried
playing the DVD's on nine different TV DVD players.

Strangely, the DVDs I burn work great in my computer's DVD drive.

I have defragmented my hard drive, and reinstalled all of the software

discussed above. I checked my "IDE" settings as well.

The sound files I am importing into MM2 are .wma files downloaded from

Rhapsody. I'm running XP on an Emachines T1600 with an AMD Athlon 1.41 GHz
processor and 736 MB of RAM.

 

[John Kelly]

Hello there,

Your remarks demonstrate a problem with playing AVI's, yes thats obvious
but you eliminated several other things in your remarks.

A good course of action would be as follows...

1) Uninstall Windows Media Player and reboot the machine
2) Uninstall DirectX and reboot again
3) Download the FULL version of DirectX 9.0b, Media Player 9 and Movie
Maker.
4) Install the programs in the order mentioned above and reboot the machine
after each install

Its important that you get the full versions and do not do an install over
the internet, and its important to reboot, this will ensure that any file
locks that might exist are removed allowing a proper re-install of the
programs.

If all of the above fails you may want to rey a program called rename
codecs. For instructions on how to obtain it you will need to visit my
website. The program has been used by a large number of people with around
a 95% success rate (thats a guess)

Good Luck

 

[Guest]

I have a similar problem. I copy a file via firewire with MovieMaker from a
Panasonic PV-GS12 and save as an avi file. When playing the avi file in
Windows Media Player, it runs about double speed with choppy video and audio
- voices sound like chipmunks. I get no codec related or other errors. I
have tried playing the avi file on 4 other Windows XP Professional machines
all with the same result - I reformated the hard drive on one machine and
installed all brand new software components from the operating system up.
Very frustrating. May regular workstation is 2.4 GHz with fast hard drives
and bus. I have found no resolution to date - been working on this for about
2 weeks now. Any help would be appreciated.