Saved movie file won't play in Windows Media Player

[Guest]

I've created a movie in MM. I saved it as a DV-AVI and it seems to save just
fine. However, when I try to play it in Windows Media Player, it doesn't
move. I can drag the scroll across and see the whole movie, but the movie
does not play on it's own.

The movie also saved to a rather large file (26 minute movie, 5.4 GB, not
many effects to speak of either). This file size also means I can't save it
to a DVD which is concerning.

Any thoughts on any of these issues?

 

[Wojo]

Hey Brian

1st - Try creating a file using a lower quality setting and see if that
plays properly. This will narrow down the possible problems and solutions
for you.

2nd - DV-AVI will always create a huge filesize since you are working with
little compression and getting the result of a high quality video file.

3rd - Don't worry about the filesize when it comes time to create a DVD. It
is the length of the movie that matters not the size of the file since your
DVD Authoring software will convert it to MPEG2 and create a DVD for you
anyway.

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[Guest]

Wojo,

First off, I appreciate the help. The problem with trying to save at
anything lower than a DV-AVI is that the time estimation starts at roughly
100,000 minutes and grows to over 1 million and the percentage completed
never moves from zero. In fact any file type I choose other than DV-AVI
starts well above 100,000 minutes and never recovers.

 

[Wojo]

Well Brian this particular issue is one I haven't heard of happening before
but I would suspect it is one of those weird anomalies that tend to occur
when using a filetype that is supposed to be supported but does in fact
cause issues such as MP3, MPG, or JPG. What are the filetypes in your
project, maybe that will shed some light on the subject?
-Wojo

 

[Guest]

Wojo,

The video files were originally mpeg2 which I converted to .avi. The only
outside audio clips are a narration done right in moviemaker so it is a .wma
and a song which is an .mp3. I thought it might be the .mp3 but it's for the
closing credits and the movie doesn't play at all.

On a side note, after playing with movie maker for a while (swapping out
images where the file seemed to pause or hiccup) I was able to get a .avi
that worked completely... only in Quicktime. Still just frozen frames on
Media Player.

 

[Wojo]

Hmmm. As I said this is a new one on me, and apparently on the other too
since nobody has chimed in yet, but it may have been caused by a problem in
the conversion from MPEG2. But the first thing I would do is try deleting
the MP3 and render it to see what happens. It may not solve the problem but
it is an easy way to rule it out for certain.
-Wojo