Inserting AVI into PowerPoint 2007 presentation

[Arnaud Miege]

Hi,

I have searched the internet and tried out various solutions, but nothing
has really helped so far, so I'm hoping this newsgroup my be able to help.

I have a couple of AVI movies that are compressed with the Indeo 5
compression algorithm (I can't change this). If I try insert -> Movie from
file... it just won't play back. Now, if I drag the file from Windows
Explorer into PowerPoint, it will play. However, I have to start it manually
by clicking on the image of the movie. I used the custom animation to get
the movie to start automatically and again, that works well for a single
movie. Not the problem starts that I have two movies that I want to embed on
one slide and play simultaneously. If I use the same drag from Windows
explorer technique as above and use the custom animation to get them to
start playing automatically ("with previous"), there's just a lot of
alternate flashing of the screen, but the neither of the movies actually
play.

I have checked that the movies can play with MCI (start -> run -> mplayer2).
I use Windows Media Play 9 (9.00.00.4507 to be precise) and the list of
video codecs installed on my machine is as follows:

Cinepak Codec by Radius Inc.
DivX 6.8.5
ffdshow video encode
Huffyuv lossless codec
Indeo codec by Intel
Indeo video 5.10
ir41_32.ax
iyuv_32.dll
Ivcodec2.dll
Microsoft RLE Codec
Microsoft Video 1
Microsoft Windows Media Video 9 VCM
msh261.drv
msh263.drv
msyuv.dll
On2 VP6
On2 VP7
TechSmith Screen capture Codec
tsbyuv.dll
Xvid MPEG-4 Video Codec 1.2.1
yv12vfw.dll

Oh, and I use Windows XP Professional Version 2002 SP3 on an Intel Core Duo
T2400 @ 1.83GHz with 2GB of RAM.

I would be grateful if you had any suggestions.

Many thanks in advance,

Arnaud

 

[Michael Koerner]

Have a look here http://www.playsforcertain.com/

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


Hi,

I have searched the internet and tried out various solutions, but nothing
has really helped so far, so I'm hoping this newsgroup my be able to help.

I have a couple of AVI movies that are compressed with the Indeo 5
compression algorithm (I can't change this). If I try insert -> Movie from
file... it just won't play back. Now, if I drag the file from Windows
Explorer into PowerPoint, it will play. However, I have to start it manually
by clicking on the image of the movie. I used the custom animation to get
the movie to start automatically and again, that works well for a single
movie. Not the problem starts that I have two movies that I want to embed on
one slide and play simultaneously. If I use the same drag from Windows
explorer technique as above and use the custom animation to get them to
start playing automatically ("with previous"), there's just a lot of
alternate flashing of the screen, but the neither of the movies actually
play.

I have checked that the movies can play with MCI (start -> run -> mplayer2).
I use Windows Media Play 9 (9.00.00.4507 to be precise) and the list of
video codecs installed on my machine is as follows:

Cinepak Codec by Radius Inc.
DivX 6.8.5
ffdshow video encode
Huffyuv lossless codec
Indeo codec by Intel
Indeo video 5.10
ir41_32.ax
iyuv_32.dll
Ivcodec2.dll
Microsoft RLE Codec
Microsoft Video 1
Microsoft Windows Media Video 9 VCM
msh261.drv
msh263.drv
msyuv.dll
On2 VP6
On2 VP7
TechSmith Screen capture Codec
tsbyuv.dll
Xvid MPEG-4 Video Codec 1.2.1
yv12vfw.dll

Oh, and I use Windows XP Professional Version 2002 SP3 on an Intel Core Duo
T2400 @ 1.83GHz with 2GB of RAM.

I would be grateful if you had any suggestions.

Many thanks in advance,

Arnaud

 

[Arnaud Miege]

Have a look here http://www.playsforcertain.com/

I renamed the AVI to MPG (following more internet searching) and that seemed
to do the trick, I was able to insert the movies by simply doing insert ->
Movie from file... and it just worked.

Arnaud