Movie maker preview screen goes black after a few seconds of video

I'm using movie maker in Win XP.
After importing a vid, I am breaking it into pieces. Just click on the
imported vid and press play... but after a few seconds of normal
video, the preview screen goes totally black. Sound continues and the
video is continuing to "play" but the preview screen is black. If I
alt-tab switch to a different window that covers the preview screen,
then alt-tab back to moviemaker, I get a few more seconds of normal
video before it goes black again. Seems to be something to do with
screen refresh? Has anyone else had such a problem and found a fix?

Dr Blue wrote:
> I'm using movie maker in Win XP.
> After importing a vid, I am breaking it into pieces. Just click on the
> imported vid and press play... but after a few seconds of normal
> video, the preview screen goes totally black. Sound continues and the
> video is continuing to "play" but the preview screen is black. If I
> alt-tab switch to a different window that covers the preview screen,
> then alt-tab back to moviemaker, I get a few more seconds of normal
> video before it goes black again. Seems to be something to do with
> screen refresh? Has anyone else had such a problem and found a fix?
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You may have some incompatibility issues
with your source files. Have a look at the
following articles:

File type compatibility with Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/v8tee
or...
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutor...patibility.htm

Which file type should I use in Movie Maker?
http://tinyurl.com/6n66g3
or...
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutor...MovieMaker.htm

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John Inzer

The file giving me problems is a wmv file that was *created* using
movie maker in the first place.

The video preview works fine for 3 or 4 seconds, then goes black. When
I force a screen redraw, such as by alt-tab switching to an
overlapping window and then back, it again plays fine for 3-4 seconds
before again going black. I can keep doing this... but it gets pretty
tedious.


On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:54:04 -0400, "John Inzer" <oobie@doobie.xyz>
wrote:

>Dr Blue wrote:
>> I'm using movie maker in Win XP.
>> After importing a vid, I am breaking it into pieces. Just click on the
>> imported vid and press play... but after a few seconds of normal
>> video, the preview screen goes totally black. Sound continues and the
>> video is continuing to "play" but the preview screen is black. If I
>> alt-tab switch to a different window that covers the preview screen,
>> then alt-tab back to moviemaker, I get a few more seconds of normal
>> video before it goes black again. Seems to be something to do with
>> screen refresh? Has anyone else had such a problem and found a fix?
>=================================
>You may have some incompatibility issues
>with your source files. Have a look at the
>following articles:
>
>File type compatibility with Movie Maker
>http://tinyurl.com/v8tee
> or...
>http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutor...patibility.htm
>
>Which file type should I use in Movie Maker?
>http://tinyurl.com/6n66g3
> or...
>http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutor...MovieMaker.htm

Dr Blue wrote:
> The file giving me problems is a wmv file that was *created* using
> movie maker in the first place.
>
> The video preview works fine for 3 or 4 seconds, then goes black. When
> I force a screen redraw, such as by alt-tab switching to an
> overlapping window and then back, it again plays fine for 3-4 seconds
> before again going black. I can keep doing this... but it gets pretty
> tedious.
===========================
OK...but maybe the original source
files had incompatibility issues.

Maybe it would be worth a try to go
to...Tools / Options / Compatibility tab
and uncheck all the filters.

And maybe the file is reaching the
resource limits of your system.

Maybe it would be worth a try to do
some maintenance. Empty your
Temporary Internet Files folder...
run Error Checking and Defrag...

Here's a link to a Google Groups
search into this newsgroup...maybe
you can find some info in there.

Black
http://tinyurl.com/4bomd7
or...
http://groups.google.com/group/micro...emaker&q=black

--

John Inzer

I had to reinstall movie maker to fix it. What a pain in the ass.
Apparently microsoft doesn't offer moviemaker as a standalone
download. I found the drill on the net: download XP SP2, unzip it,
find moviemk.inf, right click, install....

but it worked and all is OK now.

On Sat, 20 Sep 2008 21:27:54 -0400, "John Inzer" <oobie@doobie.xyz>
wrote:

>Dr Blue wrote:
>> The file giving me problems is a wmv file that was *created* using
>> movie maker in the first place.
>>
>> The video preview works fine for 3 or 4 seconds, then goes black. When
>> I force a screen redraw, such as by alt-tab switching to an
>> overlapping window and then back, it again plays fine for 3-4 seconds
>> before again going black. I can keep doing this... but it gets pretty
>> tedious.
>===========================
>OK...but maybe the original source
>files had incompatibility issues.
>
>Maybe it would be worth a try to go
>to...Tools / Options / Compatibility tab
>and uncheck all the filters.

Already had done that with no benefit



>
>And maybe the file is reaching the
>resource limits of your system.
Not likely


>
>Maybe it would be worth a try to do
>some maintenance. Empty your
>Temporary Internet Files folder...
Do that routinely


>run Error Checking and Defrag...
>
>Here's a link to a Google Groups
>search into this newsgroup...maybe
>you can find some info in there.
>
>Black
>http://tinyurl.com/4bomd7
> or...
>http://groups.google.com/group/micro...emaker&q=black

Dr Blue wrote:
> I had to reinstall movie maker to fix it. What a pain in the ass.
> Apparently microsoft doesn't offer moviemaker as a standalone
> download. I found the drill on the net: download XP SP2, unzip it,
> find moviemk.inf, right click, install....
>
> but it worked and all is OK now.
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Thanks for the update.

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John Inzer