Windows is nagging me to update my Win11 to 24H2.  Fingers crossed it won't stuff up my software.

Gordon - That's not good.  I hope your situation improves quickly.

I'm the other side of 80.  90 will be my next big one.  No pain killers, just an assortment of medicines every day.

But living in a Retirement Village (Independent living) I've come into contact with something you don't see much of outside - dementia.  I've seen residents go downhill with it and quite quickly.  I don't know which is worse, have your body go on you, or have your mind go.  It's very sad.

Let's just say Amy is awesome.

Alaska 2011 - Thanks Paul.  I wonder what the glaciers are like now?

I couldn't catch your very last word.  Amy is a ??

Gordon - Yes, a few years ago now.  I used a small white screen and my Panasonic SD tape camera.  I digitised all my movies. The quality varied depending on the original quality.  MVP was used for editing, removing splices and adjacent frames, altering colour balance etc.  The audio was on stripe but I had my original tapes to use.  It meant stretching out parts the video to maintain sync, with frames removed for splices, and to correct any parts where I could improve sync.  I was new to video editing and in hindsight should have switched off "temporal resampling" in MVP to avoid ghost frames But actually looking at my source avi I find that most of my ghost frames are where my camera shooting 50i has captured two different frames from the screen!  My original films were shot at 16/18 fps.

You are making what is simple very complicated.  You won't "find" the unlock codes.  They are just numbers in the very small file that's created when you export them.  Instructions have been on this forum several times but anyway here is what you need to do.

Open MVP
Go to Tools/Options then the Advanced tab
Click on 'Manage Unlock Codes'
Click on 'Export'
Navigate to where you want the 'mfu' file to be saved and give it a name.

Back up the saved file to somewhere off your pc so you have it for future use, and where it shouldn't get lost.

To import your unlock codes to MVP on another pc or laptop
Open MVP
Go to Tools/Options then the Advanced tab
Click on 'Manage Unlock Codes'
Click on 'Import'
Navigate to where you've placed the file ready to import and click 'Open'

When transferring to another pc it's probably easier to put the mfu file on a usb thumbdrive for importing.  Also note the unlock codes are tied in to your MVP Product Key.  The codes won't import to a MVP installation that has a different PK.

As for VOB/Mpg - if the files audio is Dolby AC3 it will need unlocking whichever file suffix it has.  Not all VOB/Mpg files use AC3 as some use MPEG audio.

One thing you could consider is trying to find third party codecs that MVP will recognise and use.

Okay your situation is clearer now.  The unlock info would have been in your old HD registry from which a created mfu file would have taken it.  You didn't create a mfu so the information is lost.  To my knowledge there's no unlock info in your backed up mvp project files.

Unfortunately it puts you in the same position as many others.  You have a MVPX6 that won't read many files.

I've just checked my X5 again and it's opening and files opening.  My Win 11 is Home Version 23H2 Build 22631.4169.

Presumably something on your system is causing a problem.  Anyway for simple requirements there are other options as you mention.

Steve I was going to suggest this - "try updating Microsoft Visual C++".  It has solved a similar problem with other Software.

But my Serif Photo Plus is also X5 and I'm Win 11.  I've just checked and I don't have your problem.  Possibly my MS Visual C++ are more up to date.

My "home" territory having grown up in SE24, but I had never heard of Kennedy's sausages.