Hi everyone,

I'm been having problems recently with Windows Movie Maker 2.0 -
specifically I've gotten that vague error of insufficient memory, lost source
files, not enough hard drive space, etc. I went through papajohn's checklist
of things to check and do to correct it and nothing worked. Reading some of
the posts after on his site from other users, I decided to try installing the
Windows Media Encoder 16-bit, the WMV9 codec package and WMV9 VCM package. I
still was getting no where.

So, after getting a copy of WMM2.0 from Download.com and monitoring the
installation with Norton CleanSweep, I uninstalled Movie Maker and
reinstalled it. Now, the first time I reran the program, I used one image
with a transition (the image was a jpeg file - I've been able to incorporate
them into movies without fail before) and tried making a .wmv movie. It
started making the movie, but when I was prompted on whether I wanted to see
the movie when it was done, the program crashed. Now, whenever I try to make
a .wmv movie, the program crashes! I should note that I can make DV-AVI
movies with movie maker - this only happens when I try to make them the .wmv
format.

Now, here's the interesting part. When I start Window Media 9 encoder,
select convert a file, then pick an MPEG file to convert to .wmv, I get the
following error message:

'The requested video codec is not installed on this system (0xC00D0BC4)'.

It's my impression from this that the reason I can't make the .wmv format
movie is because I don't have the WMV encoder on my computer. However, when
I check my list of codecs (taken from Sherlock 2.0) to the list on papajohn's
codec list, there are only two he lists that he has that I don't, but they
don't appear to be related to making .wmv movies.

So, is my version of Movie maker crashing because I don't have this codec
for making .wmv movies? I'd really appreciate some direction on this.

Thanks.

Found out the problem and wanted to share the solution. Again, my problem
started when I got the generic error message in Window Movie Maker -
insuffiencient disk space, memory, or lost source files. Now I've been using
this software for some time and never had this error and couldn't figure out
what changes had happened to cause this.

Backtracking what I did, I remembered that I tried installing a codec for
Windows Media Player 10 so I could watch a video sample from a website.
Well, the video codec didn't install properly (it froze in upload) and it
seems that this installation glitch messed up a codec that is installed with
WMP 10 (by the way, WMP 10 was working fine). So, I went and got a new copy
of WMP 10, installed it and the problem has gone away.

So, if you get this error and you know you tried uploading an enhancement or
codec for WMP 10, try reinstalling WMP 10 as one way to fix this error.


"Tan" wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm been having problems recently with Windows Movie Maker 2.0 -
> specifically I've gotten that vague error of insufficient memory, lost source
> files, not enough hard drive space, etc. I went through papajohn's checklist
> of things to check and do to correct it and nothing worked. Reading some of
> the posts after on his site from other users, I decided to try installing the
> Windows Media Encoder 16-bit, the WMV9 codec package and WMV9 VCM package. I
> still was getting no where.
>
> So, after getting a copy of WMM2.0 from Download.com and monitoring the
> installation with Norton CleanSweep, I uninstalled Movie Maker and
> reinstalled it. Now, the first time I reran the program, I used one image
> with a transition (the image was a jpeg file - I've been able to incorporate
> them into movies without fail before) and tried making a .wmv movie. It
> started making the movie, but when I was prompted on whether I wanted to see
> the movie when it was done, the program crashed. Now, whenever I try to make
> a .wmv movie, the program crashes! I should note that I can make DV-AVI
> movies with movie maker - this only happens when I try to make them the .wmv
> format.
>
> Now, here's the interesting part. When I start Window Media 9 encoder,
> select convert a file, then pick an MPEG file to convert to .wmv, I get the
> following error message:
>
> 'The requested video codec is not installed on this system (0xC00D0BC4)'.
>
> It's my impression from this that the reason I can't make the .wmv format
> movie is because I don't have the WMV encoder on my computer. However, when
> I check my list of codecs (taken from Sherlock 2.0) to the list on papajohn's
> codec list, there are only two he lists that he has that I don't, but they
> don't appear to be related to making .wmv movies.
>
> So, is my version of Movie maker crashing because I don't have this codec
> for making .wmv movies? I'd really appreciate some direction on this.
>
> Thanks.