playing a movie

[Guest]

When I download a home movie from my digital camera to power point I get a
message with a box that has red diagonal lines that says vidoe not available
cnnot find 'vids;mjpg' decompressor.
I have triedto insert it in many ways but always the same message. I use
the windows media player

 

[Austin Myers]

Can you tell us what sort of video file it is? (ie mov, avi, wmv. etc.)
What version of PPT and Windows?

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Sheila,

I'm pretty sure that the simple "tip" in the "workaround" section towards
the end of this page will fix your video clips

http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com/powerpointtips.htm

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
http://www.awesomebackgrounds.com
free powerpoint templates, tutorials, hints, tips and more...

 

[Guest]

I have windows XP and the power point 2003. What I did was save a video clip
from the digital camera with windows Media player and saved it to my desk
top. When I insert the file I get the error message. Should I save the
video clip in another application such as quick time? Thank you for your
help.

 

[Austin Myers]

When you saved it in Windows Media Player do you have any idea what format
you used? (What ever you do, keep QuickTime out of this, it will only
complicate the problem. <g>)

My guesstimate is that you used a codec that is not available to the Windows
MCI Player (Used internally by PowerPoint). You can examine the codec used
with a utility like GSpot, locate the correct codec on the internet, and
then download and install it. The issue then wil be if you plan to move the
presentation to other machines. If so they may or may not have the codec
installed so it may or may not work.

There are a couple of alternatives. You can recompress the video into a
more standard format with a more common codec. Something like Windows Media
Encoder or Stocick video encoder will do this if you are familiar with
encoding video.

Another alternative is to download the free trial version of PFCMedia
(www.pfcmedia.com) and allow it to do the task automatically. Once inserted
with PFCMedia it will "PlayForCertain" on other Windows machines and
PowerPoint or PowerPoint viewers.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Guest]

thaks for your help, I was reviewing some other questions and found one about
digital camera's. I resaved the clip to mpg to the desktop and then inserted
it in the slide and it worked!!!!! Such a simple solution but it has taken
long enough to figure this one out. thaks for your help,
Sheila

 

[Austin Myers]

Can you tell me for my own information, what file extention did Windows
Media Player assign to it?

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Guest]

The first one that did not work did not have an extention, but it did have
the windows media player icon. For example when I saved it had a name in the
second field that read "all files" when I clicked 'all files' to pick another
file type it did not give me any choices. Then I resaved and changed the
extention to .mpg and it saved it as .mpeg by typing it in the first field.
Does this make sense? In other words, I had to manually type the extension
that I wanted it to be when I resaved it.
Example: (filename) I added the .mpg to (filename.mpg) then resaved that
file and inserted it into the pp and like magic it worked.
Let me know if you need any clarification
Sheila