Media Player Control Toolbox on PowerPoint Slide

[Guest]

After I downloaded new drivers for software I use to create my movies, all my movies already in PowerPoint stopped working (mpegs). And PowerPoint wouldn't accept any new movies from this software (Movie Star that came with Dazzle). But when I open the movies in the Windows Media Player, they work just fine

So, inside PowerPoint, I inserted the Control Toolbox, clicked Windows Media Player and drew it on the slide. Then I clicked Properties and added the path to my movie. Everything now works great

I'm using Sonia Coleman's AutoRun product to create the final CD (great product!). My question is that if I send the presentation to others, what will happen if they don't have the Windows Media Player? 99.9999% of my clients use PC.

 

[B]

Sounds like the Dazzle program scrambled your MCI settings. Look at this
fix it and learn what and why.
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00099.htm

B

After I downloaded new drivers for software I use to create my movies, all

my movies already in PowerPoint stopped working (mpegs). And PowerPoint
wouldn't accept any new movies from this software (Movie Star that came with
Dazzle). But when I open the movies in the Windows Media Player, they work
just fine.

So, inside PowerPoint, I inserted the Control Toolbox, clicked Windows

Media Player and drew it on the slide. Then I clicked Properties and added
the path to my movie. Everything now works great.

I'm using Sonia Coleman's AutoRun product to create the final CD (great

product!). My question is that if I send the presentation to others, what
will happen if they don't have the Windows Media Player? 99.9999% of my
clients use PC.

 

[Guest]

Thanks. I've read the article. I know more about multimedia, but didn't understand the article well enough to fix my problem. Any more info would help.

 

[Sonia]

In that tutorial, section three discusses MCI settings. You should compare
the settings on your system to the ones in the tutorial (based on your
version of Windows). As Bill said, the software you installed may have
altered them so that PowerPoint is unable to play your movie. Unfortunately
some software installers are a bit unscrupulous and make modifications to
Windows. MCI is a part of Windows.
--
Sonia, MS PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun CD software, templates, and tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com/

Thanks. I've read the article. I know more about multimedia, but didn't

understand the article well enough to fix my problem. Any more info would
help.

 

[Guest]

Sonia, thanks. I'm bogged down right now and need to get my CD done so I can mail. I'll look at this next week.

Another problem. I thought I was home-free, but...I just create AutoRun. I didn't have a problem before with the movie playing on the self-running CD. But now that I've had to insert my movie using the Control Toolbox, my movie won't play during AutoRun. If I open the CD and double-click the .pps, the movie plays fine.

Do you have any idea what I need to do? Every time I think I'm finished, I come across another problem.

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

[CRITICAL UPDATE - Anyone using Office 2003 should install the critical
update as soon as possible. From PowerPoint, choose "Help -> Check for
Updates".]

Hello,

If you are using the PowerPoint Viewer to display the presentation (which
is what, I believe, Sonia's autorun does), that would explain why the
movies do not play since the Viewer does not support any kind of ActiveX
controls (which is what the Windows Media Player control is). When you
double-click on the *.PPS directly, Windows is opening it up in PowerPoint
(not the Viewer) and that is why it works.

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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