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| Thread ID: 145421 | 2017-10-29 20:54:00 | Windows Movie Maker problems - maybe | Tony (4941) | Press F1 |
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| 1441271 | 2017-10-29 20:54:00 | Another help-a-friend topic. Before we start I know there are many other free video editing apps out there but for various reasons she has to use Movie Maker for this project. My friend has a DVD that has an old video transcribed from VHS on it. She wants to edit the video to get rid of a lot of extraneous stuff. The layout is the usual VIDEO_TS folder with a bunch of .VOB files plus a couple of others in it. What is happening is that if we bring one of those .VOB files into MovieMaker it goes through the prep phase but then all we get is the audio - no video. I don't think there is anything fundamentally wrong with the file as if I do the same thing with the same file on my PC it all works OK. The files play OK with VLC media player on her machine. She has Win10 and her hardware looks adequate to me, the only possible exception being that she has integrated Intel graphics and I have an NVIDIA GEForce GTX750 video card. Googling hasn't helped - all the results seem to revolve around a black screen and no playback - which is not he case here. Any ideas? |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1441272 | 2017-10-29 21:53:00 | Can you disable Hardware Acceleration ? Cant advise where the setting is as I don't have any computers here that run from on-board Graphics. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1441273 | 2017-10-29 22:08:00 | Maybe you have to transcode/convert the VOB file into a mpeg2 movie stream (or if movie maker can't handle that, then mpeg4 - ie mp4/mov - something with h.264 video) | psycik (12851) | ||
| 1441274 | 2017-10-29 22:45:00 | You could try renaming the .VOB to .mpg it usually works as that is the codec that .VOB are really. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1441275 | 2017-10-29 23:49:00 | I can certainly try the rename, but my question still remains - why does it work on my PC but not on my friend's? Wainui - I'll have to check about disabling hardware acceleration, but that suggestion surprises me - it seems like the problem is likely one of not enough grunt somewhere, and no h/w acceleration will make that worse, won't it? |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1441276 | 2017-10-29 23:53:00 | Do you use Movie Maker on yours, or something else? Perhaps it is a matter of which codec packs you each have installed. |
KarameaDave (15222) | ||
| 1441277 | 2017-10-30 03:09:00 | Do you use Movie Maker on yours, or something else? Perhaps it is a matter of which codec packs you each have installed. That may well be the issue. On my friend's PC it does not work, on mine it does. AFAIK neither of us have anything installed but the defaults. |
Tony (4941) | ||
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