This sounds like a codec problem, I'd visit Papajohns website,
www.papajohn.org and check out the crashes and hangs page.

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"ms2089" <ms2089@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> When I use movie maker it will copy video from my camcorder to my
> computer.
> However it will not open the AVI files.
>
> I can open them with media player and edit them with Ulead.
>
> Also mpeg files produced by Ulead crash explorer when I go to folder that
> contains the mpeg files