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XBov Video Player and WLMM not reading video files?

A couple of weeks ago I was editing and viewing .mov and .mp4 files without any problems with Windows Live Movie Maker and XBox Video Player. However, starting this past Friday I have been receiving this error "0xc00d36b …

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Blurred & Pixelated Video on Windows Live Movie Maker

First off, pardon my English... Okay so, I have used WMM many, many times and never had any problems before. Only now, I have. So here goes a story of me, my client, and our WMM. My client sent a video over and asked me …

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Files went missing when I put dvd in?

The windows live movie maker project I have been working on was perfect and ready to be burned onto a disc until a stuck in a new dvd to burn it on. Once I stuck the dvd in about half of the files on the project got a a …

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Movie Maker 2012 publishing BLACK screen

Movie Maker is publishng my videos as black screens with just the audio. I'm using Movie Maker 2012 I'm running Windows 7 Video works in preview only I have every codec known to man My Video card has the best driver soft …

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Movie Maker

How do I change the speed of the credits. The app will not let me access the speed mode how do I gain that feature?

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Windows Live Writer stopped working

Window Live Writer has been fine until today. I have re-installed several time without resolving problem. Would appreciate any suggestions. Windows 7, 32 bit 4 gig memory Getting this error. Question Summary Windows Live …

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Can no longer edit .mpg nor .mp4 video files.

Until 2 weeks ago I could edit and create movies using .mpg & .mp4 files in Movie Maker. Now I get an error message telling me that the file is corrupt or a format not recognized by Movie Maker. 2 weeks ago it was a reco …

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What am I doing wrong in Movie Maker – please?

I used to believe that if you'd successfully managed to do something once, you could do it again. My faith in this maxim is now being stretched as a result of my failure to configure a new Movie Maker I'm attempting. My …

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MP4 file format not playing sound in Movie Maker

Is there a way to get the sound from an MP4 file to work in Windows Movie Maker? I tried doing some research and found that some people suggested just converting to a WMV file format, but both the converters I downloaded …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 18, 2014

MP4 file format not playing sound in Movie Maker

Is there a way to get the sound from an MP4 file to work in Windows Movie Maker? I tried doing some research and found that some people suggested just converting to a WMV file format, but both the converters I downloaded …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 18, 2014

Movie Maker won’t open.

This is the error detials I recieve: Problem signature: Problem Event Name: BEX Application Name: MovieMaker.exe Application Version: 16.4.3508.205 Application Timestamp: 5111fa77 Fault Module Name: StackHash_0a9e Fault …

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Windows Live Photo Gallery Deeper Face Detection Scan

Is it possible to change the settings in Windows Live Photo Gallery so that it does a deeper face recognition scan of photos that are listed with no people. There are some pictures of mine with obvious faces in them (for …

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photo galley

Photo gallery won't work with 8.1 how to fix? <Windows 8.1>

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