A pps. file in Front Page...no audio!!!

[Guest]

Thank you for taking the time to help trouble shoot this issue.

I recently used the Pack N Go feature of '03 Powerpoint to up load all of
the files onto Front Page for our company website. However, once the
Powerpoint was link to where we wanted to play it on the site, no audio was
present. The animation worked fine though.
The interesting thing is that I have made calls to some individuals to see
if it would play on there PC, and I received a mixed respose. It would play
complete, with audio and animation, on some, play with just animation, or not
play at all on others. I even heard that on one persons PC it wouldnt go
right into the pps., it would simple pull a regular presentation for them to
manually play it, yet it still didnt play?!? Keep in mind that they are wav.
audio files.
It seems to me like a compatability issue, but im no expert and that s why I
need the expert advice and opinions
Thanks a bunch!!!!

Mike Schott

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hi Mike,

We'll need some more specifics to help sort this out. And if it's all published
to a public location on the web, it'd be a good idea to post the url so anyone
who's interested can have a look.

I recently used the Pack N Go feature of '03 Powerpoint

Hold up there. Earlier versions of PPT have Pack and Go. PowerPoint 2003 no
longer does; it's got Package for CD instead. Which did you use?

In any case, there are a lot of messy problems in putting a PPT/PPS with sound
or movies on a site as-is.

You might want to try PowerPoint's Save As Web page instead.

 

[Guest]

Hey Steve,

I really appreciate all the help!! Here is the URL:
http://www.thinkweboffice.com/powerpoints/Accounting/AccountingPowerpoint.pps

I will try saving it as a web page as you recommend. But before I do that,
what happens for you when you access that URL ?

Thanks again!

Mike Schott

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Hey Steve,

I really appreciate all the help!! Here is the URL:
http://www.thinkweboffice.com/powerpoints/Accounting/AccountingPowerpoint.pps

I will try saving it as a web page as you recommend. But before I do that,
what happens for you when you access that URL ?

I first get a prompt from the browser (Opera, as it happens) asking whether I want to
Open the file, download it or cancel.

I chose Open and it opened in slide show view in PPT, as I'd have expected it to do.

No sound though. This may help explain why ... scrolllllll wayyyyyy down to the
bottom.

Sounds/Movies don't play, images disappear or links break when I move or email a
presentation
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00155.htm

 

[Guest]

Steve...you're awesome! The audio is finally working on the link. Now Im
sure you're really busy and all but I have ONE last question for you.
I had a wav file playing as background music, but since I made the necessary
adjustments, it wont play now. Is there anyway to have the one wav file play
through the presentation with all the others??

Thanks again!!!!!

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve...you're awesome!

What, me? I just went and looked at your file and suggested you try a couple things.
You did all the work!

(But tell us which bit of work make it ... uh ... work.)

The audio is finally working on the link. Now Im
sure you're really busy and all but I have ONE last question for you.
I had a wav file playing as background music, but since I made the necessary
adjustments, it wont play now. Is there anyway to have the one wav file play
through the presentation with all the others??

Remember, I didn't have sound the first time through, so I'm not sure which others we're
talking about. ;-)

Point me at the latest version? Or is it at the same link?

 

[Guest]

The link that you gave me was the key. it said to click on tools and scroll
to general options. Once there set your link sounds with file size greater
that 50000KB so that any file smaller will embed instead of link. so the
audio is finally working on the link now. Im just a little stumped on how to
get my background music ( which is a wav. file) to play through the
presentation. I cant seem to make 2 wav. files play at the same time.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

The link that you gave me was the key. it said to click on tools and scroll
to general options. Once there set your link sounds with file size greater
that 50000KB so that any file smaller will embed instead of link. so the
audio is finally working on the link now.
Excellent!

Im just a little stumped on how to
get my background music ( which is a wav. file) to play through the
presentation. I cant seem to make 2 wav. files play at the same time.

People who know this stuff better than I do tell me that some sound cards are capable of
playing more than one sound at a time, others aren't. I don't know what percentage of either
you can reasonably count on nowadays ... Austin? Clues?

But perhaps the more important point: I'm guessing that if there's a conflict, the sounds
that's already playing takes precedence over a sound that tries to get started later; if so
(Austin? Clues?) the background track would be running from the start, so for at least some
percentage of your viewers, the other sounds wouldn't play. Might be better to skip the
background audio if so.

 

[Guest]

Steve,

The interesting thing is: before I talked to you in the beginning and before
I started puting the Powerpoint in Front page, the audio was working fine (
this includes all the narrating audio and background music ) as LINKS. Now,
for some reason that they are officially embedded in the PPS. they will not
play simutaniously?!? What do you think about that?

Thanks again,

Mike Schott

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve,

The interesting thing is: before I talked to you in the beginning and before
I started puting the Powerpoint in Front page, the audio was working fine (
this includes all the narrating audio and background music ) as LINKS. Now,
for some reason that they are officially embedded in the PPS. they will not
play simutaniously?!? What do you think about that?

Not sure quite what to think! Both sound files were WAV format from the start, or was one
possibly another format originally?

 

[Guest]

Great question Steve. The Background wav. file was originally mp3. However I
wasnt able to upload it into Powerpoint for some reason. So what I did was
upload the mp3 into Windows Sound Recorder in XP Home Edition, then saved it
as a wav. file. Windows Sound Recorer also allowed me to edit the mp3 by
dimming down the sound, etc. etc. Is there any way to upload mp3? if so, will
it play behind the narrating audio?

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Great question Steve. The Background wav. file was originally mp3. However I
wasnt able to upload it into Powerpoint for some reason.

Some types of sounds are always embedded in PPT regardless of your embedding settings, and since PPT
can only embed WAVs, it only allows you to choose WAVs in those situations.

At least THAT makes sense, if not obvious sense. <G>

But since you've converted to WAV, the MP3's not an issue.

At this point I'm in a bit over my head; I'm more of a graphics/output geek with a penchant for VBA.

Let's hear it from one of our media wizards!