Re: WMM won't save my file...


"Andros" <Andros@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Way to totally misread my post. I never said that someone told me what
wmvs
are incompatible. I said that the solutions brought to me were that either
I
was using incompatible files, to which I add "how are wmv's incompatible"
or
that I was missing some random codec. I realize you're not getting paid,
no
one here is but the fact that my thread was never answered even after I
said
that the problem still persisted led me to believe that the problem had no
answers. You may be perceiving an attitude now due to the lack of
solutions I
had before especially when these were the exact same symptoms. Also, you
guys
don't tend to listen to the problems. Especially when he said that his
project was less than 1GB and he had no previous problems. It seems WMM
just
suddenly gets problems because I've been using the exact same file types
since day one and its just now giving me problems. Heck, even exact same
files that once worked just fine like 2 months are now coming back with
timeline displaying problems and general saving problems. It just seems
WMM
gets buggy for no apparent reason.

Indeed, and in the convoluted world of Mr Gates
unpredictable but addictive software, it can get
itself confused and baffled.
There is of course the frustrating element to add
to the confusion - critical updates, optional updates
and hotfixes.
The bottomline to this specific problem is the fundemental
issue of what file formats are compatible with WMM, and
the fact is that very few are! Having problems with AVI's?
Sometimes it can be solved by downloading Divx codec's,
*some* Mpegs can be made compatible with the installation
of an encoder, - PowerDVD for example.
But WMM is very fussy about what formats it will accept.

Updating, phew where to start....................
Most of us opt to have critical updates automatically,
but then comes the exasperating aspect that some critical
updates then require an "optional" patch or hotfix - which we
the end user have to think of checking for!
That is always worth doing, visit Windows Update, perform
a scan, and then click the optional and hardware update
link to see what that has to offer.

The following is a cut from another thread in another forum
not relevent to this discussion, but just to give an example
of how complex and frustrating updating can be:
(The point of this example is how an update may cause
failure if procedure is not followed and patches not applied)

----- Original Message -----
From: "decoder" <REMOVE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.windowsmedia.player,microsoft.public.windowsxp.video
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 5:29 PM
Subject: Re: C00D11DB Error


Hi
Before you do any of the following read through this:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/mp10/readme.aspx

Have you downloaded and installed Rollup-2?
This is an "optional" update:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter/upgrade/rollup2.mspx

But it's tricky......................
You first must install MS .Net Framework 1.1
and .Net Framework 1.1 SP1, BUT..............
before you do any of the above, you must
first check if you have the previous .Net Framework
update, if it is installed it must be removed before
any of the above updating:
In Add/Remove Programs, check the box to show updates and look
for update 886904 (That specific update ONLY).
If it is there, UNinstall it
Now install Rollup - 2, it should also *auto* install framework 1.1 and
1.1
SP1
REBOOT
And Once again visit Windows Update, there is another optional patch
that may need to be installed.

KB article 900325
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/900325


http://search.microsoft.com/results.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&q=Rollup+-+2





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