Video that I'm trying to edit in WMP won't play

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Video that I'm trying to edit in WMP won't play

Postby juongyee » Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:33 pm

Windows media player only plays the video whenever I restart the program but then after i've played through the video it won't let me replay it again until i restart the program. then the same thing happens all over again.
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Re: Video that I'm trying to edit in WMP won't play

Postby juongyee » Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:57 pm

juongyee wrote:Windows media player only plays the video whenever I restart the program but then after i've played through the video it won't let me replay it again until i restart the program. then the same thing happens all over again.


edit: also when i hit stop, it keeps saying pause instead
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Postby CrackTheSky » Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:29 am

Try VLC media player, since WMP kinda sucks.
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Postby electiveinsanity » Thu Dec 21, 2006 1:09 pm

Are you calling Windows Movie Maker "windows media player" by mistake? If you're having trouble importing video into Windows Movie Maker here's a short list of free programs that can convert videos into a format WMM will accept:

1. VLC (a bit tricky learning to use the conversion, look for a tutorial)

2. Flask MPEG

3. AV DVD Player Morpher

4. WinFF (by far, the easiest to use)

5. DVDx

All of these programs are freeware. Enjoy.
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Postby juongyee » Thu Dec 21, 2006 4:01 pm

actually i meant windows movie maker. sorry.

it lets me import the video clips fine, (they're .mov files)

whenever i play through the clip the first time, it won't let me play it again. when i hit 'play' it says it's playing but it's not. WMM would only play the part where i forward it to the part where there's only the music and not where the clip is on the timeline.

i hope this is not confusing to you guys..
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Postby CrackTheSky » Thu Dec 21, 2006 4:10 pm

Eww, don't edit with .mov files. Edit with .avi files that are encoded with a lossless codec, like Lagarith or HuffYUV. Don't know if you can convert .mov files, though :/
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Postby juongyee » Sat Dec 23, 2006 6:57 pm

it works now thanks

ps: there seems to be a problem with the music as well. whenever i try to play through a certain part of the music in wmm, it plays a different part of it. :?:
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