Insert movie problem solved

[IBarzel]

After installing third party applications I could not insert mpeg-1 an
mpeg-2 movies into powerpoint. The solution is to change the parameter
in the windows xp registry. There are two locations that need to b
tweekd. The first is:

"My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Window
NT\CurrentVersion\MCI"

AviVideo mciavi.drv
CDAudio mcicda.drv
MPEGVideo mciqtz32.dll
MPEGVideo2 mciqtz32.dll
qtvideo mciqtz32.dll
Sequencer mciseq.drv
WaveAudio mciwave.drv

and the second is:

"Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Window
NT\CurrentVersion\MCI32"
AVIVideo mciavi32.dll
CDAudio mcicda.dll
MPEGVideo mciqtz32.dll
MPEGVideo2 mciqtz32.dll
qtvideo mciqtz32.dll
Sequencer mciseq.dll
WaveAudio mciwave.dll

On a second PC the AVI movie file parameter was case sensitive t
capital letters and powerpoint crushed.
To see how the dll and drv are written open a command prompt at Window
directory and type dir mci*.* /s>mci.doc and notepad mci.doc
that would give a list of the drivers.

I had to solve this problem at the time I needed powerpoint most, no
the solution would be on record

 

[Echo S]

Thank you for posting this information. The case sensitivity is
interesting, although the other information is available at
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/multimedia.htm