importing .avi into movie maker

[kaidreil]

since I'vedownloaded the Windows Movie Maker I havent been able to import any
of my .avi files (which play fine on WMP). It tells me I need a codec which
it will automatically download, and to just restart the program. Well, I've
restarted it and even rebooted it several times, and nothing's going on,
nothing's downloading... The box under tools > options > download
automatically? is checked... so what's going on? do i have to uninstall and
reinstall? I know it can import .avi because my friends are able to do it on
their computers...

as well, to reinstall, I have to take the whole SP2 package, right? where
can I find that? I know its somewhere in microsot, but whereever I look, even
on the downloads page it forwards me to oother places continuously and I
can't find it...

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

OK first let's find out with which codec these AVI files were encoded.
Download and install the G-Spot Codec identifier from:
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/

There are two codecs that most people use to compress files... these are the
DIVX codec and the XVid codec....

www.divx.com
and
http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/

In order to play and edit compressed files, you need the exact codec on your
machine, so once you've run the AVI file through G-Spot, come back and let
us know what codec it says.
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows



"kaidreil" > wrote in message
...
> since I'vedownloaded the Windows Movie Maker I havent been able to import
> any
> of my .avi files (which play fine on WMP). It tells me I need a codec
> which
> it will automatically download, and to just restart the program. Well,
> I've
> restarted it and even rebooted it several times, and nothing's going on,
> nothing's downloading... The box under tools > options > download
> automatically? is checked... so what's going on? do i have to uninstall
> and
> reinstall? I know it can import .avi because my friends are able to do it
> on
> their computers...
>
> as well, to reinstall, I have to take the whole SP2 package, right? where
> can I find that? I know its somewhere in microsot, but whereever I look,
> even
> on the downloads page it forwards me to oother places continuously and I
> can't find it...

[kaidreil]

thanks ^_^;; i was really getting worried that i couldnt even download the
codec i needed from microsoft...but it turned out to be Xvid encoded so i got
the codec and its working fone again. thanks so much =)

"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:

> OK first let's find out with which codec these AVI files were encoded.
> Download and install the G-Spot Codec identifier from:
> http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
>
> There are two codecs that most people use to compress files... these are the
> DIVX codec and the XVid codec....
>
> www.divx.com
> and
> http://www.xvidmovies.com/codec/
>
> In order to play and edit compressed files, you need the exact codec on your
> machine, so once you've run the AVI file through G-Spot, come back and let
> us know what codec it says.
> --
> Cari (MS-MVP)
> Printing & Imaging
> http://www.coribright.com/windows
>
>
>
> "kaidreil" > wrote in message
> ...
> > since I'vedownloaded the Windows Movie Maker I havent been able to import
> > any
> > of my .avi files (which play fine on WMP). It tells me I need a codec
> > which
> > it will automatically download, and to just restart the program. Well,
> > I've
> > restarted it and even rebooted it several times, and nothing's going on,
> > nothing's downloading... The box under tools > options > download
> > automatically? is checked... so what's going on? do i have to uninstall
> > and
> > reinstall? I know it can import .avi because my friends are able to do it
> > on
> > their computers...
> >
> > as well, to reinstall, I have to take the whole SP2 package, right? where
> > can I find that? I know its somewhere in microsot, but whereever I look,
> > even
> > on the downloads page it forwards me to oother places continuously and I
> > can't find it...
>
>
>