My saved wmv movie stops playing after few minutes but music conti

[ICNYC]

I successfully saved my project as a wmv file to my hardrive but it won't
play. It playes for about 7 minutes and then the slideshow stops but the
music continues. I've tried to save it over several times but the problem
persists. Each time I saved it, it stoped playing after only a few minutes.
The whole movie is a combination of still images and short avi files with
some mp3 files and is 35 mins long. It saved fine but for some reason Windows
media player won't play the entire movie. Anyone knows what the problem is
and how to resolve it? So much time and work went into this and no movie....

 

[John Inzer]

I successfully saved my project as a wmv file to my hardrive but it
won't play. It playes for about 7 minutes and then the slideshow
stops but the music continues. I've tried to save it over several
times but the problem persists. Each time I saved it, it stoped
playing after only a few minutes. The whole movie is a combination of
still images and short avi files with some mp3 files and is 35 mins
long. It saved fine but for some reason Windows media player won't
play the entire movie. Anyone knows what the problem is and how to
resolve it? So much time and work went into this and no movie....

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You may have some incompatibility issues
with your source files. Have a look at the following
article:

File type compatibility with Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/v8tee

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John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[ICNYC]

Thanks for the link. My problem is listed on the website and I will try
solutions suggested. Can I convert my pictures from jpeg to bitmap in my
project and how I do that?

 

[John Inzer]

Thanks for the link. My problem is listed on the website and I will
try solutions suggested. Can I convert my pictures from jpeg to
bitmap in my project and how I do that?

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No guarantees that converting to .bmp
will be the fix but if you want to give it a try
I would suggest converting from jpeg
to bitmap in an image editing program...
then recreate the project. Windows
Paint can convert the files one at a time...
and there are many programs that can
convert in a batch.

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John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Graham Hughes]

Irfanview has batch conversion, on this page
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/WebPages/UsefulProgrammes.htm

I'd start with converting music if that is mp3 first though

 

[Michael Warrick]

I'm willing to bet that your MP3s are Variable Bit Rate.... VBR.

There is a bug where WMM reads the time incorrectly for these files.

IE: check the duration of your source audio file outside of WMM, import into
WMM and check the length there... you will see a discrepancy.

Convert all your MP3s to .wav or .wma before you import into WMM.

DBPowerAMP can do this.