Squashed Windows Movie Maker Problem?
Question by Amanda: Squashed Windows Movie Maker Problem?
I’ve been searching the internet for a seriously wasteful amount of time in the last day and a half looking for a solution to this problem. My video and sound play just fine while still inside of WMM. When I publish the finished (roughly five minute video) and play it back in windows media player, the video becomes squashed and distorted, no…i don’t have the green bar several people have been talking about. But I have gotten two large black bars on the left and right side of the screen. The one on the right, received a thin green line (after trying out codec combinations in WMM.)
However, I have ticked this and un ticked that over and over again but I get nothing. Yes, I’ve adjusted the aspect ration to the proper number needed (it is a wide screen video, btw). I’ve gone to my start menu and selected Xvid and ticked on, Compatibility Renderer as well. While in windows movie maker I’ve gone into Tools/Options — and I’ve adjusted the codec, checking this one and un checking that one in several different combinations. The only results I’ve gotten with that that are remotely near an average video is a full (wide screen) video, but then the sounds cuts out and I’m left looking for that as well.
Any other suggestion? I know. Someone is going to say…download the codec package for it. Tried that too.
It is seriously frustrating, I’ll tell you what…..
Any suggestions that won’t make me go through what I’ve already stated?
Best answer:
Answer by Insane_mad_maniak
Aspect Ratio, it’s set incorrectly, go through the settings and find it.
some players (i forget what the technical term is) dont play these types of video correctly, some recorders record in that way to save on the size the file would be, they are supposed to use a code in the video to put the aspect ratio correctly, but they dont.
try VLC player (google it) and press A key which is the key to change the aspect ratio and one of them should be correct.
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