Comments on: Add video from your networked storage into Movie Maker

By: daweitz

daweitz — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:42:25 +0000

This is great. Thanks for posting. One would think that the install would look for WHS and add this automatically. Worked like a charm!

By: Antony

Antony — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:42:01 +0000

If I were you, I would change the heading to “Live Movie Maker” because “Movie Maker” it is a totally different software which this article refers to.
Anyway just disappointed that Microsoft didn’t make this software compatible with XP, yet they must sell and sell and sell!!!

By: Menthix

Menthix — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:09:11 +0000

That works beautifully, thank you! Saves me from clogging up up my local drive, which isn’t that big to begin with now I have a NAS.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:16:33 +0000

Window Clippings. Worth every penny.

By: Jonas

Jonas — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:48:54 +0000

Which software do you use to take these stunning screenshots?

By: pizzaboy192

pizzaboy192 — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 20:02:13 +0000

Yet another reason why I have a “whiny forum and blogger user” filter on my FireFox
Rafael: Great find, it will help me access all the non-existant video files on my now-defunct home server… (Having to move, and hosting my video files on 400 miles away won’t make much sense)
I hope it doesn’t go nutso at me for using other methods of storage like Zip drives, DriveSpace3 compressed Floppies (120mb per disk) and E-SCSI drives…

By: Dumb Dumber Dumbest

Dumb Dumber Dumbest — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:45:43 +0000

I was a huge fan of Microsoft in the 90s when Windows 95 came along. But the company has started dumbing down its products in the 2000s so much so that I feel helpless as a power user and the Linux platform is too geeky for me. Windows Media Player, Windows Explorer, Live crapware, Search.,heck even Office (2007 and 2010). Everything is super-dumbed-down because they have appararently run out of ideas to make the program feature-packed. (Yet somehow they manage to make it bloated on memory usage in spite of dumbing down and removing features in favor of over simplifying). I must be living under a rock because I don’t get it why less is more in terms of software features. Fortunately, there’s one more platform that offers me PROFESSIONAL-grade full-featured AND modern software ecosystem and looking today at Movie Maker has urged me to break the ice once and for all. By 2020, Microsoft may give us an OS that only has a Start button, a launcher and an internet browser. Everything else happens behind the scenes, No power left to the poor user.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:02:04 +0000

Or use Vista’s Movie Maker which isn’t lame and use another better uploading tool for YouTube etc. Microsoft lameware is getting dumbed by every release, even if this was a commercial app, it would have been super-lame because any consumer product from MS is never full-featured post the Windows XP days. People won’t get anything except lame format support, flowers and babies in screenshots and timeline-less editing from this crippleware. Or try MPEG Video Wizard DVD which is the best consumer video editor right now.

By: shad fernandez

shad fernandez — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:38:09 +0000

Perfect! I’m also using a WHS (home built) and hated having to copy over my pictures/movies just to use WLMM.

Thanks!

By: Add network videos and pictures to Windows Live Movie Maker « Nysics Clubhouse

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:59:21 +0000

[...] allow that. And I’m sure you don’t want to copy it over to your computer. So, thanks to the WithinWindows blog, I will show you how to add networked video to Windows Live Movie [...]

By: JohnCz

JohnCz — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:00:17 +0000

Thanks for discovering this… I am also using an HP MediaSmart. Hopefully the Live MovieMaker team addresses any remaining issues and enable this for the next release.