Windows Movie Maker

[GrtArtiste]

My friend with an HP laptop using Vista (version unknown) burned a
file named
Anniversary Video Final.mswmm onto a DVD_R for me. The file size is
2.89mb (that's mb-not gb). As I expected, my 3 year old Dell running
WinXP SP3 won't play the file. The WMM on this machine (v 2.1.4026.4)
says the file is not supported. Okay-that's fine...but the XP box
could "see" the file. Then I took the disc over to my 1 year old Dell
running Vista SP2 (WMM v 6.0.6002.18005). This machine cannot even see
the file. I tried typing in the file name and it still won't find it.
Yes the drive in the Vista box is a DVD drive-it reads other CDs-DVDs
just fine (so far). This same machine while booted in Ubuntu could not
read the disc (gave error message "invalid mount option").

Is there any good reason why the XP box could mount the disc and the
Vista machine could not? Is it worthwhile to try and burn a copy of
the disc on the XP box, or should I ask my friend to burn another disc
for me? Thanks for any assistance.

GrtArtiste

 

[Q]

My friend with an HP laptop using Vista (version unknown) burned a
file named
Anniversary Video Final.mswmm onto a DVD_R for me. The file size is
2.89mb (that's mb-not gb). As I expected, my 3 year old Dell running
WinXP SP3 won't play the file. The WMM on this machine (v 2.1.4026.4)
says the file is not supported. Okay-that's fine...but the XP box
could "see" the file. Then I took the disc over to my 1 year old Dell
running Vista SP2 (WMM v 6.0.6002.18005). This machine cannot even see
the file. I tried typing in the file name and it still won't find it.
Yes the drive in the Vista box is a DVD drive-it reads other CDs-DVDs
just fine (so far). This same machine while booted in Ubuntu could not
read the disc (gave error message "invalid mount option").

Is there any good reason why the XP box could mount the disc and the
Vista machine could not? Is it worthwhile to try and burn a copy of
the disc on the XP box, or should I ask my friend to burn another disc
for me? Thanks for any assistance.

GrtArtiste

Anniversary Video Final.mswmm is a Windows Movie Maker Project File. It is
not a video. Have your friend open the project and burn the video to disc by
selecting Publish To...DVD.

Q

 

[Jon]

My friend with an HP laptop using Vista (version unknown) burned a
file named
Anniversary Video Final.mswmm onto a DVD_R for me. The file size is
2.89mb (that's mb-not gb). As I expected, my 3 year old Dell running
WinXP SP3 won't play the file. The WMM on this machine (v 2.1.4026.4)
says the file is not supported. Okay-that's fine...but the XP box
could "see" the file. Then I took the disc over to my 1 year old Dell
running Vista SP2 (WMM v 6.0.6002.18005). This machine cannot even see
the file. I tried typing in the file name and it still won't find it.
Yes the drive in the Vista box is a DVD drive-it reads other CDs-DVDs
just fine (so far). This same machine while booted in Ubuntu could not
read the disc (gave error message "invalid mount option").

Is there any good reason why the XP box could mount the disc and the
Vista machine could not? Is it worthwhile to try and burn a copy of
the disc on the XP box, or should I ask my friend to burn another disc
for me? Thanks for any assistance.

GrtArtiste

Have a look at the disc type (written on the disc) ie DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RW,
DVD-RW. The DVD drive on the newer Dell may only support a particular type.

 

[GrtArtiste]

Have a look at the disc type (written on the disc) ie DVD+R, DVD-R, DVD+RW,
DVD-RW. The DVD drive on the newer Dell may only support a particular type.

The DVD in question is a DVD-R. Other DVDs that I have used
successfully on the new Dell are DVD-R and DVD+R. I have not used
either DVD-RW or DVD+RW on this machine. So...what difference does the
+ make?

GrtArtiste

 

[Dominic Payer]

Check for a firmware update for the drive. It may be unable to read some
newer disks until updated.

 

[John Inzer]

Anniversary Video Final.mswmm is a Windows Movie Maker Project File.
It is not a video. Have your friend open the project and burn the
video to disc by selecting Publish To...DVD.

Q

========================================
As Q says... .mswmm is a Movie Maker 'project' file
(that's why the file is so small) and is only useful for
re-editing purposes on the machine that it was created
on. If you doubld left click the .mswmm file on your Vista
machine it will open Movie Maker but all you will see
is Red Xs because you won't have the original source
files.

Ask your sender to 'Publish' the project in the .wmv
format and send it to you.

Windows Vista -
Publish a movie in
Windows Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/2lo4gp
or...
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/4ea4b6cd-0cfe-4d02-8122-16c28828cdf21033.mspx

Movie Maker in Vista -
Publishing / Quality Profiles
http://www.papajohn.org/Vista-Publishing.html

--

J. Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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

 

[Jon]

The DVD in question is a DVD-R. Other DVDs that I have used

successfully on the new Dell are DVD-R and DVD+R. I have not used
either DVD-RW or DVD+RW on this machine. So...what difference does the
+ make?



Not alot. Just different formats. It can prove significant when sharing
though eg I share the odd video / film with someone whose DVD player only
takes the DVD+R type.

 

[Ashton Crusher]

The DVD in question is a DVD-R. Other DVDs that I have used
successfully on the new Dell are DVD-R and DVD+R. I have not used
either DVD-RW or DVD+RW on this machine. So...what difference does the
+ make?

GrtArtiste

See Q's answer.