Inserting Movie Files

[DJM]

Followed MS Office Assistance advice on Adding a Movie.
Opened and played the file in Media Player. Followed the
Insert Object advice and a file is inserted in the ppt.
slide but it is either all black and will not play or it
is a white box containing the file name and a "no
picture" tile. The file will not open or play.

OS is WinXP Home and ppt 2003. The movie file has an .mpg
extension and does play in Media Player. Help?

 

[Sonia]

It sounds like the linked path to the file exceeds the limit in PowerPoint 2003.
Try moving your presentation and the video file to a location with a very short
path. For example, move it to C:\Test_path. Then delete the movie and
re-insert it. Does it now play when you go to Slide Show mode?

 

[Alan]

If you are using a data projector turn off the laptops
display and hey presto MPEGS will run.