Help with windows media player

[JRP]

alright well im trying to make a movie soon with me and my friends riding. I tested out our camcorder which is a sony handycam. I put in the disk which is a memorex dvd-rw mini. It was fine but when i played it in windows media player it ran but i couldnt transfer it to movie maker. If i tried to open it over on movie maker is say it cannot play it. I have no clue why. The disk is finalized, i just dont know why it wont work on movie maker.

[JRP]

bump.... anybody?

[<DRS>GPF]

windows movie maker wont play DVD's or even associate the file extension..

youll need to convert it to just about any other format..

[omaits]

I don't think Movie Maker supports .VOB files. This is the file format for DVD's. If you click on your dvd, open the Video_TS folder, you should see a bunch of files. (IFO's, VOB's, etc...)

The VOB files are the ones you need. You can rename the .VOB extension to .MPG and import it into MovieMaker. (you will have to copy it to your desktop first since you can't modify files on a DVD-R).

Let me know if that works for you.

[JRP]

Originally posted by <DRS>GPF
windows movie maker wont play DVD's or even associate the file extension..

youll need to convert it to just about any other format..


how do you convert it? when igo to the file which all the videos should be in, theres none. Only when i switch it to All Files theres some video files in there, but they wont play in windows media player. They are called Video_TS. And they wont open in movie maker.

[omaits]

Originally posted by JRP
how do you convert it? when igo to the file which all the videos should be in, theres none. Only when i switch it to All Files theres some video files in there, but they wont play in windows media player. They are called Video_TS. And they wont open in movie maker.

did you even read my post?

RENAME THE .VOB FILES TO .MPG. THEN IMPORT THEM INTO MOVIE MAKER.

[<DRS>GPF]

Originally posted by omaits
did you even read my post?

RENAME THE .VOB FILES TO .MPG. THEN IMPORT THEM INTO MOVIE MAKER.


i would think it takes more than to just change the extension or the movie industry is in more trouble than i thought..

http://www.cucusoft.com/
something like that... or look here http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=224833

[omaits]

Originally posted by <DRS>GPF
i would think it takes more than to just change the extension or the movie industry is in more trouble than i thought..

http://www.cucusoft.com/
something like that... or look here http://forum.videohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=224833

Maybe you shouldn't think then. Maybe you should just try it. :rolleyes:

Originally posted by <DRS>GPF
i would think it takes more than to just change the extension or the movie industry is in more trouble than i thought..

[/url] yah im pretty sure it works

[<DRS>GPF]

Originally posted by omaits
Maybe you shouldn't think then. Maybe you should just try it. :rolleyes:

i tried it before i posted just to be sure.. :blah: it gives a codec error because the format isnt correct..

if you can, then theres a secondary program that does it for you..

you cant just change an extention of a media type and have it magically change compression etc. to another media type.. :rolleyes:
there has to be program that makes the change in the media format.. the industry is smarter than that and micro$oft wont make it that eazy..

thats why there are converters like in the links i posted, otherwise those companies just wasted their time.