Preview window of Windows Movie Maker keeps freezing

I did a search and read all the messages on this problem, but can't find anything that helps me.  I use WMM on a Vista (SP2) (originally installed Vista) machine with 3G of RAM on a HP G-60 laptop.  The evolution of hardware acceleration is not possible because this dialog box tells me that "the pilot prevents the hardware acceleration setting."  The card is a NVIDIA.

What happens is that I can choose a video using the import link, and sometimes (if I do NOTHING) it will start to play.  Any adjustments to the timeline slider causes an immediate freezing of the video and it cannot be moved.  It freezes completely.  The only thing I can do is to click outside the preview window and select the video again.

Sometimes I do a random 'hash' in video 'on the fly' and it will start again properly, but I can't afford to cut pieces of film because I NEED them.  There is no guarantee that it will work more.

Are there solutions to this problem, or is it just something inherent in WMM and I have to live with it?

Bill

C

The clip duration can vary between 10 seconds and up to about four or five minutes.  Most of them freezes - there is no set model to which lock them up. Conversion application that I use is Prism Video Converter.  It works well and everyone I converted are first tested in WMP for correct operation.  I can move backward through the timelines in WMP with each item.  Yes, I tried activation and deactivation of the five filters in all combinations which all on.

I now have a second computer with Win7 on it, and WMM works perfectly - no freezing.  Apparently, the ugly video chipset on the laptop is not until WMM tried to make do.  I'll use the W7 machine in the future.

Bill

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