how to use windows media player in a slide show

[Guest]

Power Point 2003 SP2 and Windows Media Player Ver 11.0.5358.4827

After inserting a Windows Media Player, going to custom, browsing for video
file, the list shows several IFO and VOB files. Is it always selecting the
first VOB file that makes it work?

I set for full screen mode, but subsequent showing reverts back to a default
size. I can right click the mouse and then select "zoom, full screen," but is
there a keyboard way of doing this? The normal wmp keyboard shortcuts do not
work.

When the slide shows up that the DVD is to pay in, it comes up full screen
black (as designed in the slide). I've tried to add a default picture to show
while the media is loading up, but it keeps getting over ridden by the black
screen from the wmp. Is there a way of having a picture show while the media
is loading, and then with a delay or something let the DVD menu show up on
top of the picture?

Further, the video is just one screen among others, that is, there are slide
before and after it. I can get the video to start, but when it comes to the
end, I cannot get it to go onto the next slide. What should I do to make this
happen? Stopping the video and "esc" kicks me out of the presentation.

Also, some of my slides have a recorded voice, but the volume between these
slide and video is quite different. Where do I go to get them at the same
level?

Thanks for helping.

 

[Austin Myers]

Using the WMP for DVD in a presentation is problematic as you have seen. It
really requires code within a macro or add in to gain control over it.
(Simply setting it's properties doesn't work the way you would expect it
too.)

Here is a good starting point.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/platform/sdk.aspx


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

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

 

[Guest]

Thanks Austin, but I amnot a "pro" and could not figure out which of those
listing of "sdk" would do anything for me. I had just purchased PFCMedia
(seeing as you noted it) hoping to solve my problem, but I ran into the same
problem there.
Can the video format be converted into another format that would eliminate
these poroblems?

 

[Austin Myers]

Can the video format be converted into another format that would eliminate
these poroblems?

Yes, if you have the copyright holders permission. There are many free
"rippers" out there a Google search should get you to them.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

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