No Video image in Vista's Movie Maker

[Zenoth]

Hey,

So I have a video I want to import in Windows Movie Maker (I'm using Vista, by the way), the format is XviD (if it matters to mention), and when I play it in WMP it's showing up fine, both picture and sound (I installed the XviD codecs from the official web site, otherwise it won't play in WMP). But there's a problem when I import it in WMM, I right-click on the video and select "Add to Timeline", then it loads up for a moment and it's finally applied on the time line, but when I play the video all I get is the sound, the screen remains black.

Is there any way to fix that? Should I change the base format of the video before using it in Movie Maker? It's strange, because I never had that kind of problem in Windows XP (also, in XP any videos I imported in Movie Maker would get split up in many separate smaller parts, it's not doing that in Vista, it's imported as a single file, maybe the problem I have is linked to that).

I'd appreciate some help, thanks.

 

[Fardringle]

Install the 64-bit version of XVid. Windows Media Player will use the 32-bit codecs, but Movie Maker requires 64-bit codecs.

 

[Zenoth]

Originally posted by: Fardringle
Install the 64-bit version of XVid. Windows Media Player will use the 32-bit codecs, but Movie Maker requires 64-bit codecs.

I tried that, I Googled a XviD x64 setup, I installed it, no errors during installation, but then I got a crash after I imported the video in WMM, with the faulty module being xvidcore.dll.

EDIT: Never mind, it's fixed now, the setup I downloaded must have been old, I got a new one from CodecGuide instead specifically for 64-Bit, now everything works, thanks for your help.