movies work in mplay32.exe but cause PPT 2003 to freeze when I in.

[Guest]

PPT 2003, Win XP,
movies work in mplay32.exe,
path name is less than 128 chars
When I try to insert movie from file, small files appear to work, files
around 2Mb give a black square and audio only, anything much bigger turns
part of the screen green and PPT stops responding.

I am totally out of ideas, if anyone has got a clue I'm all ears.

 

[Austin Myers]

Could you email one of the files giving you a problem?


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Guest]

Its not one files it's all of them, I have found since that even the small
file doesn't work, it just gives the opening picture, when it is run it goes
black. This happens with MPEG and WMV.

After looking at a few other posts I have uninstalled Ulead movie editor, a
DVD to avi converter and a DVD copier. I have put the videos onto my work
computer and the MPEG files seem to work fine. The WMV file (the one one I
really want) seems to work occasionally but not always. I don't know if this
sheds any further light on the prob? Also the file is about 20MB so
E-Mailing may not be the way ahead on my dial up connection.

 

[Austin Myers]

As a suggestion, give PFCMedia a try. You may download a free trial copy
(fully functioning) from www.pfcmedia.com.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Guest]

I have, when i press the test button the small test screen goes black or
green (neither of which is the opening frame) and the audio continues. Gspot
doesn't tell me much that I understand when I renderit it reports that direct
show can play the file.

mmcompview may as well be in japanese, I have disabled everything not made
by microsoft and it has made very little difference, but I might just be
doing it wrong.

why is nothing ever just easy?

david

 

[Austin Myers]

I would suggest downloading and reinstalling Windows Media Player. Doing so
should straighten out the codec issues (and I suspect you have several) as
well as file associations and system settings.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Guest]

1. uninstalled, downlaoded and reinstalled windows media encoder 9
2. downloaded and installed WMP10
3. downloaded and installed video decoder checkup utility
4. Restarted
5. ran checkup utility and found two MPEG decoders not compatible with MCE
or WMP10 and disabled them in MMCompView.
6. Ran it again and it detected none (all of this may not be remotel related
with the problem)
7. Tried to install a file through PFC ad exactly the same thing happened,
small black screen. Inserted it anyway and it got to *saving/inserting* and
then froze.

I give up, some things just weren't meant to be, I think I'll just keep
borrowing laptops until I find one that works. Thanks for the time and
patience though.

David

(pick a window computer, you're leaving)

 

[Austin Myers]

David,

Drop me an email if you want and I will try to help sort this out.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com

 

[JohnG]

Go to media player, tools, options, performance.
Try changing your video acceleration to none.
I just had the same problem and this helped at least on one of my slides.
I was able to simple change the extension of my short video to MPEG and it
worked.
I'm following the thread as my issues were pretty much the same. Either
black default or scrambled green.

regards, JG