Powerpoint Video through an LCD Projector

[Terry Duncan]

My apologies if this has been addressed before by this learned group.

I do a lot of work inserting videos and sound into presentations - as do all
of you I would guess. When I go through the presentation on my laptop,
either of them, the video format (AVI, mpeg variations, etc.) play fine, but
when I use the LCD along with the laptop, all I get is a black screen on the
LCD image. The sound, of course, works fine, but I only get image on the
laptop. When I convert the video to AVI, it works fine on both outputs.

If I use the function key to set up with only the LCD showing an image, the
videos will work.

Any help that you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

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[Tushar Mehta]

I've always interpreted this behavior (show video on only one output
device) as a sign of lack of oomph -- most likely in the graphics card,
but also possibly in the CPU or some driver.

My older laptops could drive the video on only one output device --
either the laptop itself or the LCD projector, but not both. The
current laptops that I use -- Toshiba 3500 and M200 -- can easily show a
video on both the laptop screen and the projector.

Something I just thought of...may not pan out but, then again, it
might...experiment with PP's use of graphics hardware acceleration
and/or the Windows use of graphics hardware acceleration.

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[Echo S]

Videos play correctly on computer but not on projector (black box)
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00467.htm might help.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Tushar,

for future reference....

Toshiba 3500 and M200

what graphics cards to these lappies have?

Maybe steve could add it to the FAQ pages

Cheers
TAJ

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Tushar,

for future reference....


what graphics cards to these lappies have?

Maybe steve could add it to the FAQ pages

Since drivers and video card specs change faster than I can type, I could make
a long, unprofitable and ultimately futile career of keeping ... no, TRYING to
keep ... a page like that updated. <g>

OTOH, on the page Echo mentions, there are links to some of the main graphics
card makers.

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Tushar

forget that idea

TAJ