Thanks Alan.  Calculating their ages as the dates flashed by indicated quite a variation.  What was the oldest of them all?

Sandy - MVPX6 only does 25 fps MP4 files so if your source is DV-AVI 50i (25 fps interlaced) you lose one field.  Personally I use Handbrake which is a free download for converting all my 50i files to 50p.  It has several advantages and with my 1080 HD material no noticeable quality loss.

These avi files are obviously your source material which you are archiving.  Personally I'd keep them at the best available quality which is how they were downloaded.  Converting to mp4 will change their image pixel size and pixel aspect ratio and with MVPX6 you will go from 50i to 25p which means one field is totally lost.  25fps can also make movement look jerky.

Best to buy more external drives if space is getting limited on your storage drive. They are relatively inexpensive nowadays.

seskolbel - I've sent you a PM.

Note - As per the top of the forum page

"Private messages: There is no pop-up alert for new PMs on these forums, so you need to look out for the PM link (near the top right-hand corner of the page) becoming bold"

Our hot sticky weather continues.

A recent visit to an historic home, Highwic.  Well historic for NZ but fairly modern for those of you with older histories.

https://vimeo.com/916153261  or  https://youtu.be/RovAiHXAnSo

The Devon connection is interesting for me as my mother was born in Devon at "Up Exe Rowe R.D".  She was only there briefly as her family moved to London.

Also your X5 unlock file won't work with X6 and vice versa.  You must use the X5 mfu with X5 and the X6 mfu file with X6.

Are you correctly importing them via Tools/Options/Advanced/Manage Unlock Codes/Import?

With the disc is in the drive if you go to "My Computer" where you can see your pc drives etc listed does it show anything in your CD/DVD Drive.  If it doesn't then you probably have a bad disc.  But if it's worked before that's strange as Serif's discs were pressed discs, not burnt ones, so shouldn't deteriorate.  Is the surface of your disc clean and undamaged?

Edit:  If it does show the disc and its contents then proceed as Alfred has suggested.

Thanks Gordon.  I wonder how the stones/rocks will survive if the area gets a bad storm.  A lot of effort has obviously gone into the displays.

1984 came and went but big brother didn't appear.  Or did he?  It's the fake imaging and voice reproduction that bothers me.  Soon we won't be able to trust anything we see or read.

Did you export and import your unlock codes?  If you did then the movie clip you are trying to play needs a codec that you don't have unlocked.  As Serif shut down their unlock server you cannot now obtain it.  It might even need a codec that MVP never had as it's years old now.  What type of file are you trying to play?

Gordon - I wonder where your "deserted" building got its water and waste disposal when it was occupied.  There appeared to be power lines along the road so that answers electricity supply.  It looks too far away from everything to have mains water and sewerage.  Here roof water is the usual source for remote areas but if you don't get rain?  Perhaps there's underground water which can be pumped up or reached with a well.  As for waste - septic tanks?

Gordon - a couple of questions.  Were the participants mainly locals or Brits like you running away from an English winter?  Everything I saw or heard seemed to be in English not Spanish!

And the temperature?  It looked like a nice summers day but hang on it's winter at present in the Northern Hemisphere.  December 31 is only ten days past your shortest day.