Windows Live Movie Maker – Sound but no video – Nvidia 285.62

  • Posted: February 2, 2012

I was taking some simple iPhone .movs today and converting them to DVD but realized I was having issues with the video not displaying in Windows Live Movie Maker. The files played fine in Windows Media Center which was weird. I at first thought it was codecs but after further analysis, that wasn’t it. The sound was find but I just had a black box. Even if I tried converting the video and saving it, it would then play with no video in Windows Media Player.

I ended up not finding many answers for this but decided to check my video card drivers. I was running a Nvidia Geforce GTX570 with 285.62. I decided to give the beta drivers a try; currently 295.51 as of this writing. That ended up fixing it.

I guess there was a bug with 285.62 for Windows Media Center and it must have also fallen under WLMM. Anyway simple fix after an hour of research. Hope this can help someone else out.

Mike Averto

Mike Averto

is the Founder and Chief Designer at Otreva Designs. He’s an experienced web developer/designer who specializes in front-end development (JavaScript, HTML, CSS). When not hand-crafting HTML/CSS you'll find him learning about some type of new web technology.

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