Movie Maker won't recognize .avi files

So I'm running Windows vista home premium 64 bit and I tried to edit
some .avi video files on my windows movie maker but when I tried to edit
the file it gave me a black screen in the preview box and only
recognized it as audio.

Does Windows Movie maker 64 bit not recognize .avi video files or is
there something I can do to fix this like download a patch?


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Smowrey

Smowrey wrote:
> So I'm running Windows vista home premium 64 bit and I tried to edit
> some .avi video files on my windows movie maker but when I tried to
> edit the file it gave me a black screen in the preview box and only
> recognized it as audio.
>
> Does Windows Movie maker 64 bit not recognize .avi video files or is
> there something I can do to fix this like download a patch?
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Try converting the .avi files to a compatible format
like .wmv before you import into Movie Maker.

Have a look at the following links:

Movie Maker 2 -
Importing AVI Files
http://tinyurl.com/2nncyj
or...
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-Importing-Video-AVI.html

Converting to.wmv with Windows Media Encoder
might be worth a try:

Windows Media Encoder
http://tinyurl.com/bbal
or...
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

How do I convert other video file formats to WMV?
http://tinyurl.com/2o8uso
or...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...vice/0065.mspx


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I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

"Smowrey" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> So I'm running Windows vista home premium 64 bit and I tried to edit
> some .avi video files on my windows movie maker but when I tried to edit
> the file it gave me a black screen in the preview box and only
> recognized it as audio.
>
> Does Windows Movie maker 64 bit not recognize .avi video files or is
> there something I can do to fix this like download a patch?
>
>
> --
> Smowrey

Try downloading Divix web player. It will play most of them in WMP.

http://www.divx.com/en/win

CH

"Smowrey" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> So I'm running Windows vista home premium 64 bit and I tried to edit
> some .avi video files on my windows movie maker but when I tried to edit
> the file it gave me a black screen in the preview box and only
> recognized it as audio.
>
> Does Windows Movie maker 64 bit not recognize .avi video files or is
> there something I can do to fix this like download a patch?
>
>
> --
> Smowrey

You need to have the video (and audio) CODEC that was used to encode the
video track in that AVI file installed in your system. There are any number
of CODECs that could have been used, most are proprietary and some are only
available if you buy them. In the way of freeware options you can download
the XviD CODEC which can decode many generic mpeg4 or DivX encoded videos,
or FFDSHOW which can decode AVI or other videos using any of dozens of
different video and audio CODECs.

I've had some good luck with this xillisoft product: 'Xilisoft Video
Converter Platinum - Free software downloads and reviews - CNET
Download.com'
(http://www.download.com/Xilisoft-Vid...-10535116.html).
That’s a link to the video converter (I believe it does audio as
well) on CNET’s Download.com.

Anyone else used it to provide some more feedback?


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On Tue, 26 May 2009 13:57:22 -0500, RonS WIN TEAM
<> wrote:

>
>I've had some good luck with this xillisoft product: 'Xilisoft Video
>Converter Platinum - Free software downloads and reviews - CNET
>Download.com'
>(http://www.download.com/Xilisoft-Vid...-10535116.html).
>That’s a link to the video converter (I believe it does audio as
>well) on CNET’s Download.com.
>
>Anyone else used it to provide some more feedback?

That doesn't help with *encoding* them using Movie Maker - that only
addresses *playback*. =)

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"Chad Harris" <Win7@yes_she_can.net> wrote in message
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>
> "Smowrey" <> wrote in message
> news:...
>>
>> So I'm running Windows vista home premium 64 bit and I tried to edit
>> some .avi video files on my windows movie maker but when I tried to edit
>> the file it gave me a black screen in the preview box and only
>> recognized it as audio.
>>
>> Does Windows Movie maker 64 bit not recognize .avi video files or is
>> there something I can do to fix this like download a patch?
>>
>>
>> --
>> Smowrey
>
> Try downloading Divix web player. It will play most of them in WMP.
>
> http://www.divx.com/en/win
>
> CH

Sounds like you have the 32bit codec for that file installed.

What codec does the AVI use? You would want a 64bit version of that. =\

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See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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"Smowrey" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> So I'm running Windows vista home premium 64 bit and I tried to edit
> some .avi video files on my windows movie maker but when I tried to edit
> the file it gave me a black screen in the preview box and only
> recognized it as audio.
>
> Does Windows Movie maker 64 bit not recognize .avi video files or is
> there something I can do to fix this like download a patch?
>
>
> --
> Smowrey