Live Photo Gallery on my XP system also plays MOV files.
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"wrinklyBrit" <bridgebrokencondor@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Another interesting quirk. A few minutes ago I found that Photo Gallery
> (Vista Home Premium as shipped) played the video from several Quick Time
> Movie clips that I'd copied from my hard drive to an SD card for the
> purpose
> of testing the new MOV coveter software. Coincidentally, I didn't
> download
> it.
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> M101111GAME
>
>
> "PapaJohn" wrote:
> Quote:
>> With 33 line items in my laptop's MM6 Compatibility List, this quirk kept
>> me
>> busy for hours yesterday as I tracked it down. It's now the 4th 'What Can
>> go
>> Wrong' item on my website's Vista > Publish Movies page. Here's how I
>> wrote
>> it.
>>
>> Issue: Sometimes When I mix a Photo Story 3 wmv file in a movie project
>> with
>> other clips, everything shows fine in the finished movie except the part
>> from the story, which is just blackness.
>>
>> Resolution: This happens on my Vista Home Basic laptop when the audio of
>> the
>> story is muted in the MM6 project and the New Soft Audio Encoder Filter
>> is
>> listed and checked in the Tools > Options > Compatibility list. If I
>> uncheck
>> the filter (or rename it - c:\Program Files\Common
>> Files\NewSoft\NSM2AEnc.ax) and resave the movie, the story clip shows as
>> usual. If I unmute the audio of the story and lower the volume to zero to
>> quiet it, the movie also renders fine with the filter checked.
>>
>> Although I can consistenly repeat the issue, I'm guessing this is really
>> a
>> symptom of a more basic problem that I don't understand. I'm glad I got
>> this
>> far with it yesterday. It's another nudge for me to keep routinely
>> working
>> with all line items unchecked.
>>
>>
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>>
>> PapaJohn (MVP)
>>
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