Inserting Movie Clips into PowerPoint 2002

[W. Chartrand]

I created several presentations in PowerPoint 2000 using the Microsof
ME OS. I have since upgraded to PowerPoint 2002 and to XP Professional
I now find that the movie clips do not run in my presentations nor ca
I insert them. I keep getting a message that either the file i
non-standard or that QuickTime is not installed properly. The file
are standard mpeg and the QuickTime appears to be installed correctly.

Any suggestion would be appreciated

 

[IBarzel]

Using the search option in this forum you would have found this recen
posting. So for the people who read it before my apologies.
If you would like screen shots of my registry please Email m
privately.

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
tweaked. The first is:

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

also "My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Win
dows NT\CurrentVersion\MCI Extension " should reflect these changes.

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.

the other information is available at
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutoria.../multimedia.ht

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Using the search option in this forum you would have found this recent
posting. So for the people who read it before my apologies.

Thanks for jumping in with that and the offer to help privately by email.

As for the search option, keep in mind that people access this newsgroup by
several means, some directly using a newsreader client, some via Google, some
via MS' web interface, others through sites that ... um ... borrow ... the
content from the real newsgroup. <g>

Not everybody has the same search options, if they have 'em at all, so no need
to apologize for the extra post. If it gets an answer to somebody who needs
it, then job well done. Thanks!