again problems with PPT, Producer and links to external video

[steff]

hello,

1) i created a slide in PowerPoint, I inserted a movie inside to play
automatically (memu, insert, movie and sound, from file)
2) following suggestion here, the movie was picked up from the very
same directory where the slide livese
3) I show the slide and the movie ok... it plays

NOW...

4) I imported that slide into MS Producer
5) I published the project to a local folder of the computer
6) i play the producer's presentation and every is still fine. I have
the TOC, the audio/video narration of the teacher, the html with links
and buttons, the slide and inside the slide again another video with a
demo narrated by the teacher.

7) i put the Producer's output folder to the web-server and i try to
play from there:
everything works but the video inside the slide. no video... no
frame... nothing.

The only reference I have to the video is this:
the producer's project is called "testPIP", so have a folder named
"testPIP_files"
in that folder there are the html code pages ( slide0001.htm ) and if i
open it wordpad i see at the bottom:
<oa:video src="file0001.wmv"
that is the file that should be played inside the slide

I do not know... if i chane src="... with href="./
it does not work anyway....

Any idea why it works on the computer's filesystem and not on the web
server???

 

[Austin Myers]

As the presentation is working as expected in PowerPoint, you may want to
ask your question in the Producer news group.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com

 

[steff]

Austin Myers ha scritto:

As the presentation is working as expected in PowerPoint, you may want to
ask your question in the Producer news group.

Yes I agree and i did it.

The reason to post even here, is due to the fact that PPT and producer
are very similar, being build on the same blocks.

1) i take the PPT slide with two videos embedded, inserted from the
very same directory where the PPT slide lives, then i save this PPT
slide as html.

or

2) take the PPT slide, import into Producer, then publish locally to
the PC filesystem

Both 1) and 2) works just fine if played locally, but both do not work
loaded into the web server.

If i have a look at the html code generated by PPT saved as html and at
the html code produced by producer for the slide that contain the
video... have the same code inside the page.

Importing both into MS FrontPage, the links to the WMV movie files are
marked as broken

the tag that starts the video is something like:

.... video src="file.wmv"

and even if this html is lots of direcotories far from the root of the
web server, looking at fron page, it refers always to the root. It
should look at the same direcotory, but it does not.

replacing with

.... video src="./file.wmv" does not works (but maybe it is wrong
syntax...)
.... video href="http://... the path /file.wmv" does not work too