Pinnacle Studio Plus 12.1 seems to be usable. I have seen a crash in the DVD burning settings page but I am able to author a movie that I can burn to a DVD and is usable. Using the K-LITE 64-bit AND 32-bit codec package on Windows 2008 X64 I am able to get Pinnacle to read MPEG-2 files and working with these clips is without incident.
Ok. When I install the 32-bit codecs too, then media player works. Movie Maker still doesn’t correctly render MPEG clips, however.
Is it just because I am trying to run 64-bit that none of this works for me?
I download the codecs and they work in the utilities, but not in media player. I can’t play MPG or DVDs period. Should I take Microsoft’s recommendation and buy a decoder package or is that just a waste of time?