Movie Maker, Vista, and MM restarts instead of publishing

[Nexus]

I'm using Vista, MM 6.0 etc, WMV audio file, JPG pictures, short video clips
in the WMV format.

No special effects on transitions.

I've worked hard to time the pictures and video with the audio (it's a music
video of my band that I'm working on) but when I go to publish --- MM asks
for a file name, which I enter and hit next, then it closes, restarts itself,
checks for the files, but does absolutely nothing after that.

No error messages. It just doesn't publish. I tried copying the file and
moving over to XP, but that doesn't work. Duh, I should've realized it would
be a different version.

What can I do to resolve this? I saw a similar problem on XP posts that's
resolved by resaving video with some sort of Microsoft video timestamp
program but can't figure out if that applies here.

Please help! Thanks!

 

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Additionally, I tried taking out audio, then all video but leaving audio,
then just video I converted to wmv and leaving the other video and audio.
Finally, I took out all video and audio and tried to publish just the
pictures. I did all that just to see if I could isolate a troubled file. No
dice with all trials, same scenario of MM restarting and not publishing yet
still without any sort of error messages. Next try will be to delete all
pictures and leave in video/audio and try it again without audio and again
without video.

Could picture size of the original file have something to do with this? The
Project file is only 1.41MB in size.

 

[On Request]

While you may get a useful answer in this newsgroup, you might try posting
the question to this URL: http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/forums/

A lot of real WMM experts there....myself I have very limited experience
with WMM....

 

[Nexus]

Thanks for the tip. I looked there and see other people with similar
problems, but no one has posted a suggestion for resolving it.

I wish that Microsoft would get off their butts and figure out how to fix
this. I think VISTA is the problem, really. It's nothing but a headache.
Vista reminds me of a dumb blonde with big knockers -- pretty to look at,
likely to cause a lot of problems, but is ultimately useless.

 

[Nexus]

"remyc" posted the following on another help group thread and it WORKED like
a CHARM!!!! Movie Maker now publishes with "no" problems!!!!!!

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU to this "remyc" person!

Joined: 15 Apr 2007
Total Posts: 4

Re: Movie Maker cant publish the movie
Posted: 04-15-2007 08:18 AM
I brought a good news for all of you who met the same problem as me.

I happened to find the resolution for this problem. This problem will also
make Outlook2007 and OneNote2007 crash. I got the resolution for these 2
applications and found it also resolve the Movie Maker publishing problem in
Vista.

The problem is because of Voxware Audio Codec. Please follow the steps below.

-Enter regedit.exe with Adim permission
-Expend HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows
NT/CurrentVersion/Driver32
-Right click msacm.voxacm160 and rename it to no.msacm.voxacm160
-Your Movie Maker will be happy to work for publishing immediantly.