Movie Maker always has to close

Teddy

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Jan 31, 2006, 10:20:28 PM1/31/06

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Whenever I open MM2 it has to close. The problem seems to be related to
qedit.dll . This dll is always mentioned in the event viewer. I'm using XP
SP2, with the embedded MM2. I do not have a restore point far enough back to
do me any
good (unless I go back to day 1). My email address is ttwy...@aol.com.

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Dean Rowe [MS]

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Feb 1, 2006, 11:05:36 AM2/1/06

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There's a component in Direct Show which caches the information about the
effects and transitions that are registered upon your system. Unfortunately
there's a bug in that component which causes it to crash if you have a lot
of transitions and effects installed. MovieMaker calls this routine on
startup which is probably why you're seeing MovieMaker crash.

Fortunately there is a workaround by doing something like the following.

1. Find an application which has registered a bunch of effect filters.
2. Rename the directory that the application is installed into to
something else - which will temporarily cause those effect filters to fail
to load.
3. Start MovieMaker. As less effects are successfully created,
MovieMaker should hopefully launch.
4. Rename the directory in step 2 back to it's original name so the
original application still works.
5. Start MovieMaker again. As everything was successfully cached in step
3 it shouldn't try to recache things so it should continue to work..

As an example of an application for step 1, I've seen people run into this
problem with applications installed from InterVideo. (This isn't a bug in
InterVideo's application - it's a Microsoft bug it's just that InterVideo
applications can install a bunch of DirectShow filters). In this case you
would go to your "C:\Program Files\InterVideo" directory and rename
"InterVideo" to something like "TempInterVideo". Then start MovieMaker. Once
it has launched, close it down and rename "TempInterVideo" back to
"InterVideo".

Good luck
Dean Rowe
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

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Teddy

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Feb 1, 2006, 11:25:15 PM2/1/06

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How do I identify a program which has registered alot of identity filters?
I will
try the renaming of the Intervideo to see what happens. Thank you.
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Teddy

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Feb 3, 2006, 6:39:52 AM2/3/06

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I renamed Intervideo, but MM2 still had to close.
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PapaJohn (MVP)

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Feb 3, 2006, 11:10:34 AM2/3/06

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see the Problem Solving > Crashes and Hangs page of my website... for info
about others to disable
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Teddy

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Feb 4, 2006, 10:53:27 PM2/4/06

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I went to the crash site and renamed intervideo, but the MM2.1 problem con-
tinued. Incidently I downloaded and installed several video converter
programs
and had to uninstall them when theygave me the same had to close error as
I have been having with MM2.1.
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