Re: Movie Maker lost the ability to capture in DV-AVI from a camco
- From: John Z <JohnZ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:28:01 -0700
Grahm,
I got to the machine last night and tested capture. It would start capture
in other formats but could not complete a capture in any format tried,
including WMV. The preview window was always dark. Movie Maker's audio
meter responds normally during capture. Save of a capture attempt would fail
and hang Movie Maker.
Other: The Windows device manager sees a USB Video Device when the camera
is connected. I tried a system restore to a 2 month old condition,
presumeably before the problem, but the Movie Maker capture was still broken
and I undid the restore. (The restore did fix an unrelated problem with
internet explorer which is now broken again.)
That's all I had time for. Will continue again on Sunday evening but will
look for similar problems and solutions on this sight before then.
--
John Zweighaft
"John Z" wrote:
Graham,.
Still haven't gotten WMV capture results, but after some more searching I
found this answer by Rehan posted on 9/4/2004 regarding "AVI used to work, is
now broken." Rehan's answer says in part,
"... WinAVI's installer is a rogue installer it does not reinstate the
system in
original state when uninstalled.
After much acrobat with System Restore's, GSpot's reports, registry change
logs.. I was able to trace the problem to one of the DLL installed by this
program "q3dv.dll". This is an old version of Microsoft's DV Codec renamed
from orginal name qdv.dll. WinAVI installer registers it for its own use
but does
not reregisters the original DLL when uninstalled.
Two most safe solutions out of many...
After uninstalling the program:
1. Reinstall latest DirectX
or
2. Register the original DLL manually:
The file is "C:\Windows\System32\qdv.dll".
Locate it in windows explorer.
Open Start->Run dialog, type "regsvr32" without quotes
then drag the qdv.dll file into the run dialog.
the line in Run dialog should now read:
regsvr32 C:\Windows\System32\qdv.dll
Press Enter
... "
I think these are worth trying. What do you think?
--
John Zweighaft
"Graham Hughes" wrote:
Can you capture as wmv?
Often the dv.avi option is greyed out when a unit is not connected by
firewire.
--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com
"John Z" <JohnZ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Windows Movie Maker has lost the ability to capture video from a DV
camcorder
in DV-AVI format. The DV-AVI selection is now grayed out and not
available.
It worked when last used about 1 month ago.
Rebooting windows does not help. Windows automatic update is on. Movie
maker automatic codec download was off. I turned on automatic codec
download
and imported an AVI video file on the computer without fixing the problem
although from the wait before starting the import I suspect a new codec
was
loaded.
The operating system version is Windows XP Home Edition Version 5.1
service
pack 2. Movie Maker is version 2.1.
How do I restore the ablilty to capture camera video in DV-AVI format?
--
John Zweighaft
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