This sounds like a video card driver or DirectX issue. I advise upgrading
both to the most recent versions for your machine.
Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team
PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions
www.pfcmedia.com
"John of Arc" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> After inserting an mpeg movie into PP, it shutsdown PP everytime I try to
> run
> it. I do not have the same problem when the movie is Windows Video Media
> file. Is there a way to fix this problem?