How do I make a Flash movie play in Powerpoint on each slide visit

[Guest]

I've placed a brief Flash movie into a PPS that will be used as a kiosk
slideshow. The Flash movie plays fine during the first run, but when the PPS
loops the Flash movie does not restart — it only sits on the last frame of
the movie.

What do I need to do so that every time the slide containing the Flash movie
appears, the Flash movie will play?

 

[Troy @ TLC Creative]

Flash and PPT do not play well together... But you can definitely encourage
them to get along better.
- How did you insert the flash movie?
- Many of the third party add-ins that aid in importing will give you an
option to loop movie.
- You need to manually edit the properties. RIGHT CLICK on movie >>
PROPERTIES >> in properties dialog change LOOP to TRUE.
- Go to www.flashgeek.com for lots of info on flash and PPT
- A good add-in is Shyam's toolbox which has a great insert flash tool
(http://www.mvps.org/skp/toolbox/index.html)
- Another very helpful add-in is the FREE FLASHBACK add-in
(http://www.mvps.org/skp/flashback.htm), which will remedy a whole other
problem you will encounter when you get your movies to loop.

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Best Regards,
Troy Chollar
TLC Creative Services, Inc.
troy at tlc creative dot com
www dot tlccreative dot com
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A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
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[Guest]

Thanks. I'll look into these add-ins.

The SWF was added through the Control Toolbox>More Controls>Shockwave Flash
Object and then changing the properties.

Changing LOOP to TRUE does not work for what I need. Though it does keep the
movie looping, I only want the movie to play once on the slide then stop.
When the PPS loops and returns to the slide with the SWF, I want the SWF to
again play once and stop. (this works fine when using AVI files)

 

[Guest]

The http://www.mvps.org/skp/flashback.htm add in works great.

Thanks for the help.