MP4 movie won't run in PowerPoint 2003 -- Please Help

[Justin]

I'm trying to to link an MP4 file to my client's PowerPoint presentation and cannot do it.

When I do Insert > Movie > From file it doesn't even come up in known file types.
So I I choose "All files" and then try to link it and I get a message saying "PowerPoint cannot insert a movie from the selected file. Verify that the path and file format are correct and try again." The originally default player for MP4s was Quicktime, so then I tried it after I associted MP4s with Windows Media Player and got the same issue.

Why can't I insert MP4s? I was able to do it in MP1 but client vendor won't make them, says they're outdated. They crated .wmvs but they didn't play correctly in PowerPoint despite playing correctly in Windows Media Player.

Any help would be gratly appreciated!

thanks

Justin

 

[Justin]

Thanks for the advice TAJ and Geoff.

TAG, the problem with putting an add-in on my system like "plays for certain" is that this needs to be distributed to about 50 clients on their own PCs (and Macs).

Geoff I have 4 WMV's linked to the presentation already and they work fine, I had this one already as an WMV but for some reason this one get's completely out of synch when it gets linked to the PowerPoint (the audio speeds up and slows down, independent from the video which is really weird because it runs fine in the native Windows Media Player),
Anyway, that's why they gave me an MP4 which I'd already suspected might not work.

I have done a little online research and I just don't understand why MP4 is not an option, there is no documentation that says it doesn't work that I can find. I do know that Mpegs were. Is Mpeg 2 the same issue?

What are the movie options these days for microsoft. WMV, AVI is that it?

Thanks again for your feedback.

Justin
I'm trying to to link an MP4 file to my client's PowerPoint presentation and cannot do it.

When I do Insert > Movie > From file it doesn't even come up in known file types.
So I I choose "All files" and then try to link it and I get a message saying "PowerPoint cannot insert a movie from the selected file. Verify that the path and file format are correct and try again." The originally default player for MP4s was Quicktime, so then I tried it after I associted MP4s with Windows Media Player and got the same issue.

Why can't I insert MP4s? I was able to do it in MP1 but client vendor won't make them, says they're outdated. They crated .wmvs but they didn't play correctly in PowerPoint despite playing correctly in Windows Media Player.

Any help would be gratly appreciated!

thanks

Justin

 

[Jean-Pierre Forestier [MVP[]

Have you try to recode your mpeg4 in mpeg1 which plays easily?
"Justin" <jrk[NOSPAM][email protected]> a écrit dans le message de (e-mail address removed)...
Thanks for the advice TAJ and Geoff.

TAG, the problem with putting an add-in on my system like "plays for
certain" is that this needs to be distributed to about 50 clients on their
own PCs (and Macs).

Geoff I have 4 WMV's linked to the presentation already and they work fine,
I had this one already as an WMV but for some reason this one get's
completely out of synch when it gets linked to the PowerPoint (the audio
speeds up and slows down, independent from the video which is really weird
because it runs fine in the native Windows Media Player),
Anyway, that's why they gave me an MP4 which I'd already suspected might not
work.

I have done a little online research and I just don't understand why MP4 is
not an option, there is no documentation that says it doesn't work that I
can find. I do know that Mpegs were. Is Mpeg 2 the same issue?

What are the movie options these days for microsoft. WMV, AVI is that it?

Thanks again for your feedback.

Justin
I'm trying to to link an MP4 file to my client's PowerPoint presentation
and cannot do it.

When I do Insert > Movie > From file it doesn't even come up in known file
types.
So I I choose "All files" and then try to link it and I get a message
saying "PowerPoint cannot insert a movie from the selected file. Verify
that the path and file format are correct and try again." The originally
default player for MP4s was Quicktime, so then I tried it after I associted
MP4s with Windows Media Player and got the same issue.

Why can't I insert MP4s? I was able to do it in MP1 but client vendor
won't make them, says they're outdated. They crated .wmvs but they didn't
play correctly in PowerPoint despite playing correctly in Windows Media
Player.

Any help would be gratly appreciated!

thanks

Justin

 

[Rebecca MacLachlan]

Justin,

I always use MPG1 files for my videoclips. It seems to work fine as long as
you the powerpoint and video file travels together.

Sometimes it won¹t work from a server, and you may have to pull the
powerpoint and videoclip together to your desktop.

Rebecca

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Justin

Just so you know, destination computers do not need plays for certain to be
installed. That's the beauty of it In fact I process all videos through
PFC as a matter of course because then I know I'm not going to come up
against missing codec problems on the clients' computers.

Lucy

--
Lucy Thomson
PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au


Thanks for the advice TAJ and Geoff.

TAG, the problem with putting an add-in on my system like "plays for
certain" is that this needs to be distributed to about 50 clients on their
own PCs (and Macs).

Geoff I have 4 WMV's linked to the presentation already and they work fine,
I had this one already as an WMV but for some reason this one get's
completely out of synch when it gets linked to the PowerPoint (the audio
speeds up and slows down, independent from the video which is really weird
because it runs fine in the native Windows Media Player),
Anyway, that's why they gave me an MP4 which I'd already suspected might not
work.

I have done a little online research and I just don't understand why MP4 is
not an option, there is no documentation that says it doesn't work that I
can find. I do know that Mpegs were. Is Mpeg 2 the same issue?

What are the movie options these days for microsoft. WMV, AVI is that it?

Thanks again for your feedback.

Justin
I'm trying to to link an MP4 file to my client's PowerPoint presentation and
cannot do it.

When I do Insert > Movie > From file it doesn't even come up in known file
types.
So I I choose "All files" and then try to link it and I get a message saying
"PowerPoint cannot insert a movie from the selected file. Verify that the
path and file format are correct and try again." The originally default
player for MP4s was Quicktime, so then I tried it after I associted MP4s
with Windows Media Player and got the same issue.

Why can't I insert MP4s? I was able to do it in MP1 but client vendor won't
make them, says they're outdated. They crated .wmvs but they didn't play
correctly in PowerPoint despite playing correctly in Windows Media Player.

Any help would be gratly appreciated!

thanks

Justin