Movie will not play in another computer

[Rancemichael]

Hello,

I have created a powerpoint presentation that contains a couple movie
files that I made using a screen recorder. The movie files are in .WMV
format, and work fine on the computer (PC1, we'll call it) that I
created the presentation with. However, when I move the presentation
and files to another computer (PC2), the movies will not play. When I
run the presentation and click on the movie, the image of the movie
flickers and powerpoint locks up. I have tried many things, including
packaging the presentation to cd, moving files to c:\test and deleting
them and reinserting them into the presentation, but the movies still
will not play. If I make a new powerpoint presentation on PC2, then
insert a movie file, it works fine, but the original movies that I
created on PC1 seem to never play in powerpoint on PC2, even if a new
slide show is created. I can't create the video on PC2, as I'm
recording a program that only exists on PC1. I know this might seem
confusing, but I'm starting to lose my mind. Please help!! By the
way, the movie files will play just fine in Windows Media Player on
both computers.

Thanks in advance,

Rance

 

[Austin Myers]

Rance,

Do you know what version of wmv (there are several) the file is? Further,
what application did you use to create it?


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

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

 

[Rancemichael]

Austin,

Thank you for your prompt reply. I'm sorry, but I do not know which
wmv version the file is. I used ZD Soft Screen Recorder to make the
video.

Thanks,
Rance

 

[Austin Myers]

Ok, what I suspect is that it's using something propriatry when creating the
file. As the software is installed on PC1 all works, but when yoiu move the
video to another machine that does not have it installed it fails,

The solution in this case is to convert the file into wmv compliant format.
You should be able to use POFCMedia or PFCPro to make this conversion. WIth
that said, I would strongly suggest you capture the video to an uncompressed
AVI and allow one of the PFC products to do the conversion.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

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

 

[Rancemichael]

Austin,

I followed your advice and used PFCMedia on an AVI file. It works!
Thanks for all your help!

Thanks,
Rance

 

[Austin Myers]

Glad to hear it!

As an FYI: You can also install PFCPro along with PFCMedia if you want to
give it a try. (You may have them both installed at the same time if
desired.) It's video editing capabilities makes using video in a
presentation a snap.

 

[Chris_E]

Austin....

Do you think this was a codec problem?

Chris