problems with AVI files in PowerPoint 2003

[larabee]

Hello

My wife is having problems with a ppt created in
PowerPoint XP (spanish)/ WMP8 / W2K Prof. (spanish).

We made a sw upgrade (PowerPoint 2003 (english)/WMP
9.0/WXP Prof.(spanish)), but now when she inserts an AVI
video in the ppt and she double-click it, the video
window goes to blank. Same behavior when we start the
slide show. We hace reproduced the problem in 2 laptops,
both with the same sw configuration.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

 

[Austin Myers]

Check for an updated video driver for your machine and make certain you have
the patchs applied to both Windows and PowerPoint (Office).

Austin Meyrs
MS PowerPoint MPV Team

 

[Guest]

Hello Austin and thks for the advice. Unfortunately it didn't work. We have all the drivers, Windows and Powerpoint patches up to date. Even more, I red your article (http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00099.htm) and booted in safe mode. Same error. But (as you pointed in the same doc.) we could see the AVIs in mplay32.exe. We could also drag and drop it inside a ppt and worked! The only difference is the bar with the play/pause/stop buttons. Yet we don't know yet about the root cause of the problem.
Now we face another problem: if we drag/drop a .WMV (created with Windows Media Player), and try to doble-click it we have a BSD! Is that a codec problem? We also noticed that a wmv file could not be inserted in a std way in a ppt slide.
Again, thanks in advance & Regards
Larabee

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

[CRITICAL UPDATE - If you are using Office 2003, you should install this
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello,

What video codec is being used for the AVI?

To check:

1) Open the video in Windows Media Player
2) File -> Properties

I have seen this problem with AVI files which are encoded using the "DV
Video Encoder" and was able to get them to play by changing the file
extension from *.avi to *.mpg.

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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