I recently read the article about Photo Story 3
(http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...hool.mspx#bio1) and decided to use it to make my art project.

However, when I got the movie file to school, I realised that it didn't work
! At home, with Winows Media Player 10 it works fine, but on Windows Media
Player 8 at school only the sound plays, and the video doesn't, and on some
of the school computers that have Windows Media Player 9, it displays an
error message and doesn't play.

Why does this happen and how can I solve it ?
I really need it for my art project.

It sounds like the older computers don't have WMP's latest codecs. I don't
recall what codec Photo Story uses - do you have a sample clip I can look
at? Or it should say in the File:Properties during playback.

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"Richard_123" <Richard_123@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I recently read the article about Photo Story 3
> (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...hool.mspx#bio1)
> and decided to use it to make my art project.
>
> However, when I got the movie file to school, I realised that it didn't
> work
> ! At home, with Winows Media Player 10 it works fine, but on Windows Media
> Player 8 at school only the sound plays, and the video doesn't, and on
> some
> of the school computers that have Windows Media Player 9, it displays an
> error message and doesn't play.
>
> Why does this happen and how can I solve it ?
> I really need it for my art project.

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:48:42 -0800, "Richard_123"
<Richard_123@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I recently read the article about Photo Story 3
>(http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...hool.mspx#bio1) and decided to use it to make my art project.
>
>However, when I got the movie file to school, I realised that it didn't work
>! At home, with Winows Media Player 10 it works fine, but on Windows Media
>Player 8 at school only the sound plays, and the video doesn't, and on some
>of the school computers that have Windows Media Player 9, it displays an
>error message and doesn't play.

The Photo Story 3 application uses an optimised image codec to
compress the images and transitions to a small file. It's listed here:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...9ImageVersion2

And it ought IMO to be available for download from here (but isn't)
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...cdownload.aspx


>Why does this happen and how can I solve it ?

In general, WMP8 ought to go to the microsoft codec download site and
grab the needed codec (the Windows Media Video 9 Image Version 2) to
decode the image sequence. It would need the viewing PC to be
connected to the internet to do that.

If you can't do that, I would expect installing Photo Story on the
viewing machine will install the codec properly - but that depends if
the schools IT department let's you install software !

If nothing else works, you might be able to convert to the WMV 9
(video format) instead, but the file will be much larger and the
transitions won't be as smooth or cool.

>I really need it for my art project.

Good luck with that BTW

HTH
Cheers - Neil

*forwards self this post as a reminder to check on the codec package...*

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