Import Video only brings in half of duration

[Guest]

I am using Windows vista and trying to import a 2 min video but when I import
into movie maker I only get 1 min imported. I can play the full 2 min fine
in media player. Ihve downloaded a file checker to see if I have th ecorrect
codec and it says I do. Not sure what next to try, can someone suggest
something else?
thanks

 

[John Hanley]

I had what seems like a similar problem, i.e. Movie Maker reporting
screwball durations. I was importing .vob files, which are a form of mpeg,
and WMM does not handle such files correctly. I found I needed to convert
my .vob files to .wmv before import. I use Windows Media Encoder to do this
and now have no problem.

 

[Graham Hughes]

John is correct in that if the file type is not compatible with MM you need
to convert it to wmv to use it.

 

[Guest]

Yep Awesome, I converted the video from '.vob' to '.mwv' and presto it
works!!!! I had a problem with installing windows media encoder...still
can't figure out why it keeps crashing, so I used a trialware called AOA
ripper gives me up to 10 min which is Ok because I wanted to makesure this
fixes the problem and it did!

Thanks guys.

 

[Graham Hughes]

Thanks for telling us.