I sucessfully created a video using the windows movie maker project and
towards the end it says create a movie and i click ok so after 7-8
minutes, i get a movie and it is a .wma file. Now, I am using XP Pro
and it plays very well. A friends computer also plays it well and he is
using Win98. Howver, on my husband's laptop, XP Pro also, and WMPlayer
9, he can't play my video that I saved onto a CD rom (as a .wma file).
How is this not possible? Does anyone know why I can't play this CD rom
on the laptop.

After the video is created,run it thru windows media encoder 9 series,
simply start encoder,select,convert video/audio,locate the file,start
encoder.
You can download it from windows media or microsoft downloads/media.

"hycinth" wrote:

> I sucessfully created a video using the windows movie maker project and
> towards the end it says create a movie and i click ok so after 7-8
> minutes, i get a movie and it is a .wma file. Now, I am using XP Pro
> and it plays very well. A friends computer also plays it well and he is
> using Win98. Howver, on my husband's laptop, XP Pro also, and WMPlayer
> 9, he can't play my video that I saved onto a CD rom (as a .wma file).
> How is this not possible? Does anyone know why I can't play this CD rom
> on the laptop.
>
>

It should be a WMV file, if it's a WMA file it's audio only.
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows



"hycinth" <kuisse0002@aol.com> wrote in message
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>I sucessfully created a video using the windows movie maker project and
> towards the end it says create a movie and i click ok so after 7-8
> minutes, i get a movie and it is a .wma file. Now, I am using XP Pro
> and it plays very well. A friends computer also plays it well and he is
> using Win98. Howver, on my husband's laptop, XP Pro also, and WMPlayer
> 9, he can't play my video that I saved onto a CD rom (as a .wma file).
> How is this not possible? Does anyone know why I can't play this CD rom
> on the laptop.
>

oh yes indeed, it is a .wmv file (video and audio).

Does the windows media encoder 9 convert a wmv file to an avi file?

It will, but you can save the file in MM as a dv-avi file, see here
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutor...SaveDV-AVI.htm
Your husband may need WMP10 to play it.

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com


"hycinth" <kuisse0002@aol.com> wrote in message
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> oh yes indeed, it is a .wmv file (video and audio).
>
> Does the windows media encoder 9 convert a wmv file to an avi file?
>

thank you - thats very helpful advise - how to save in avi and i will
try it on husband's laptop

thank you - thats very helpful advise - how to save in avi and i will
try it on husband's laptop