Movie plays as black rectangle

[Kat]

Hi, I'm trying to play a movie (.avi) in Powerpoint 2007 and I can hear the
sound but no images - it just plays as a black rectangle. I've been on the
Office troubleshoot section and it says to turn down your hardware
acceleration settings in control panel, but it says "Your current display
driver does not allow changes to be made to hardware acceleration settings."
I've searched on forums for a solution to this but apparently there's no way
to enable it. Or is there? Does anyone know of any solutions or alternative
ways of playing the file?

Cheers

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Kat

It may be a file path length problem - try moving the powerpoint file and
the video to a folder directly on your C drive (e.g. C:\test rather than
somewhere in your 'My Documents' structure) and re-inserting the video.

Lucy

 

[Kat]

Hi Lucy,

Thanks for replying, I did what you said but unfortunately it's still the
same! Any other ideas?

Katherine

 

[LVTravel]

Hi, I'm trying to play a movie (.avi) in Powerpoint 2007 and I can hear
the
sound but no images - it just plays as a black rectangle. I've been on the
Office troubleshoot section and it says to turn down your hardware
acceleration settings in control panel, but it says "Your current display
driver does not allow changes to be made to hardware acceleration
settings."
I've searched on forums for a solution to this but apparently there's no
way
to enable it. Or is there? Does anyone know of any solutions or
alternative
ways of playing the file?

Cheers

Will the movie play in Windows Media Player without any issues? Let us
know.

Even if it does I would recommend you start Windows Movie Maker and use the
..avi file as the input to the program to publish a .wmv format video file to
insert into the PPT file. There are so many different versions of codecs
used with .avi files you may not have the appropriate one on your computer.

 

[Lucy Thomson]

Hi Katherine

Can I just check something? Is this on your computer or on a projector? If
on a projector see here:
Videos play correctly on computer but not on projector (black box)
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00467.htm

If on the PC here is a great place to start with video probs:
Video tutorial:
http://www.playsforcertain.com/tutorial.htm

Lucy

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Lucy Thomson
PowerPoint MVP
MOS Master Instructor
www.aneasiertomorrow.com.au