Viewing your stories
After you create video stories, there are several ways you can view the stories by using Photo Story or other programs. Although the Windows XP operating system is required to use Photo Story and to create video stories, your friends and family do not need this software to play your stories on their computers. Your friends and family can watch your story on a computer running Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium Edition, Windows 2000, or Windows XP. They can use any program that plays Windows Media Video (WMV) files, such as Windows Media Player version 7 or later, to view your stories.
To view the stories you created
Do one of the following to view your stories:
- After you create a story, on the Completing Photo Story 3 for Windows page, click View your story.
- Start Photo Story, click Play a story, click the story you want to play, and then click Play.
- Go to the folder where you saved the story, and then double-click that story. The default folder location for saving your stories is the My Videos folder. You can open the story by using any program that plays Windows Media Video files.
- In Windows Media Player 10, click Library, expand Auto Playlists, click Photo Story 3 Playlist, and then double-click the story you want to play.
- In Windows Media Player 10, click Library, expand All Video, expand Genre, click Photo Story, and then double-click the story you want to play.
Note
- If people attempt to play your video stories on computers that do not have Windows Media Player 10 installed, the Player will prompt them to download the required video codec from the Microsoft Web site.
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