My girlfriend and I have been very busy with school lately and haven't had a chance to see each other in a couple of weeks, so she asked me to record some videos for her and e-mail them to her. Unfortunately, the videos didn't work. Figuring she was missing certain codecs or something, I decided to just upload the videos to Photobucket because it would be much easier than trying to explain to her what codecs are and trying to figure out which ones she would need. However, when I uploaded the videos, they were corrupt and playing at a faster speed. I won't even bother trying to explain it; instead
here is an example. I tried uploading to YouTube and got the exact same results.
I had no idea what was going on until I actually tried viewing the videos on my hard drive (I had previewed them before, but didn't watch them all the way through). At the end of the videos, I get an error saying "The state changed while trying to process the sample." (This is on Windows Media Player 10.) I clicked on the Web Help button and I was told that it was error
80040223, but they didn't have any information about it.
My instinct was to try updating the drivers for my webcam (Creative WebCam Instant), but the drivers I have are newer than the ones on the site. So, I installed the latest FX Utility and the latest version of the Creative WebCam Center program. The videos I record no longer get that error message and they upload to Photobucket just fine, but that doesn't solve the problem with the videos I've already recorded. Am I going to have to make these videos all over again, or is there some way to fix the corruption? My computer specs are in my signature.
