Movies Won't Play!

S

sasha gottfried

RE: PP 2003

Movies play fine in WMP but can't get video from PP Presentation......only
audio...........sometimes neither!

MT
 
B

Bill Dilworth

Try moving everything in your presentation into a folder closer to the root.
In other words, "C:\Pres\...". Sometimes long path names to files throws
off the players.


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S

sasha gottfried

I put the movies in the same folder as the PPT...but no change. It's
baffling...maybe 1in 20 movies will work.......whether they are AVI or Mpeg
etc. PP seems to link to the movie, but has trouble playing most of them.
All these movies play fine in several players....including WMP 10.

MT
 
B

Bill Dilworth

I would recommend some light reading then:
http://www.playsforcertain.com/tutorial.htm
http://www.indezine.com/products/powerpoint/ppvideo.html


As you can see in these articles, PowerPoint does not always use WMP, so
that is not a guarantee.

--
Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
Users helping fellow users.
http://billdilworth.mvps.org
-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_
vestprog2@ Please read the PowerPoint FAQ pages.
yahoo. They answer most of our questions.
com www.pptfaq.com
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S

sasha gottfried

Okay........nothing seems to work...

What is this MCI Player?.......I don't seem to see it listed in my programs.

MT
 
L

Landy

sasha gottfried said:
Okay........nothing seems to work...

What is this MCI Player?.......I don't seem to see it listed in my
programs.
Click to expand...

C:\WINDOWS\system32\mplay32.exe
cheers
Bill
 
S

sasha gottfried

Apparently PP is playing these files with MCI Player. I opened them up in
that player and I get the audio but no video. Is there a way around this?

MT
 
L

Landy

sasha gottfried said:
Apparently PP is playing these files with MCI Player. I opened them up in
that player and I get the audio but no video. Is there a way around this?
Click to expand...
MT,
Powerpoint always uses the MCI player for movies inserted with the "normal"
process.
However you can insert a movie using an activeX control (for whatever
version of Windows Media Player you have installed).
I'm sure this procedure is detailed somewhere, but in short:
Right-click next to your menu buttons and select the control toolbox toolbar
(if it is not already).
On the right hand end of this toolbar there is a button for "more controls".
One of the options liasted should be "windows media player". Once you have
clicked this, draw a box on the slide the desired size of your movie. You
should get an object that looks like a media player window. With the object
selected, click the "properties" button on the control toolbox toolbar. In
the resulting window, there is a slot for "URL" where you can type the name
(and path if necessary) of your movie. The movie *should* then play using
the version of media player installed instead of the MCI player.

The drawback to this process is that if you transfer to another computer, it
MUST have the same version of media player as the one that you made the show
on.
cheers
Bill
 
S

sasha gottfried

Thanks so much!.......You just saved me a lot of time and a bit of money for
aWMV converter!

Marc
 
L

Lucy Thomson (aka aneasiertomorrow)

Landy said:
MT,
Powerpoint always uses the MCI player for movies inserted with the "normal"
process.
However you can insert a movie using an activeX control (for whatever
version of Windows Media Player you have installed).
I'm sure this procedure is detailed somewhere, but in short:
Right-click next to your menu buttons and select the control toolbox toolbar
(if it is not already).
On the right hand end of this toolbar there is a button for "more controls".
One of the options liasted should be "windows media player". Once you have
clicked this, draw a box on the slide the desired size of your movie. You
should get an object that looks like a media player window. With the object
selected, click the "properties" button on the control toolbox toolbar. In
the resulting window, there is a slot for "URL" where you can type the name
(and path if necessary) of your movie. The movie *should* then play using
the version of media player installed instead of the MCI player.

The drawback to this process is that if you transfer to another computer, it
MUST have the same version of media player as the one that you made the show
on.
cheers
Bill
Click to expand...

FYI another issue is that it won't play in the free viewer as it doesn't
support code and control items are code. I'm pretty sure anyway. So receiver
will need full version of PowerPoint.

Lucy
 
S

sasha gottfried

I guess this might be moot as I understand that PP won't embed video or
movies. Only link them to your drive.

Marc

FYI another issue is that it won't play in the free viewer as it doesn't
support code and control items are code. I'm pretty sure anyway. So
receiver
will need full version of PowerPoint.

Lucy
Click to expand...




"Lucy Thomson (aka aneasiertomorrow)"
 
S

sasha gottfried

Ran into a bit of a snag here: This process worked fine with WMP10...After
upgrading to WMP11 the player shows up but won't play the files in PP! Just
says ready...then nothing happens. Any clues?

Marc
 
S

sasha gottfried

Please disregard previous post.......no problem with WMP11...just a set up
mistake.

Merry XMAS
 
A

Austin Myers

Sasha, keep in mind that because you were able to make them work on your PC
it doesn't mean it will work if you move the presentation to another
machine. That's why we built PFCPro. It processes the videos so they will
work across all Windows machines. If nothing else, download and install the
two week trial to get you out of the woods for now. The presentation/videos
will work after the trial expires.

http://www.playsforcertain.com


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com
 
S

sasha gottfried

Re: PFC PRO....Will these processed videos work when the PPS is tranferred
to a DVD?

MT
 

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