You have a computer which supports two monitors and have them configured for “clone” mode, and you do not have the display configured to use Windows Aero. When playing a DVD movie, an artifact called “tearing” may appear on the secondary monitor. Tearing is a video artifact in which the top portion of the screen shows a different frame of video than the bottom portion. During scenes containing fast motion, there may be a noticeable horizontal line at the point where the two frames meet.

You have a computer which supports two monitors and have them configured for “clone” mode, and you do not have the display configured to use Windows Aero. When playing a DVD movie, an artifact called “tearing” may appear on the secondary monitor. Tearing is a video artifact in which the top portion of the screen shows a different frame of video than the bottom portion. During scenes containing fast motion, there may be a noticeable horizontal line at the point where the two frames meet.

When you try to publish a movie to a DVD in Windows DVD Maker on a Windows Vista-based computer, you receive the following error message:

Add Items
0 files were successfully added.
1 file could not be added.
Unspecified error.

When you use a 32-bit program to play a DVD movie in a 64-bit version of Windows Vista, you do not hear any audio.

You use Windows Media Center on a Windows Vista-based computer to play a DVD movie. When you switch the display to use a different video out port, the DVD movie may unexpectedly reset to play from the beginning. Additionally, the screen may flicker.

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When you try to publish a movie by using Windows Movie Maker in Windows Vista, you may receive the following error message:

Cannot complete Publish Movie
The movie file cannot be published to the specified location. Verify that the publishing location is still available, that there is enough free disk space, and then try publishing the movie again.

This error message may occur even if the size of the movie is less than the free space that is available at the specified location.

When you try to play a movie file that has an .mov extension by using QuickTime 7 in Windows Vista, you may receive a Stop error message that resembles the following:

STOP 0×0000001A (parameter1, parameter2, parameter3, parameter4)
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT