Playing a DVD in powerpoint by using an Action Button

[Dave]

Hi

In PowerPoint, I’m able to play a DVD using an Action Button on a slide.
Windows Media Player pops up. This works well but requires three clicks. One
to invoke the action. One to ‘OK’ a warning. One to ‘Play’ the DVD in Windows
Media Player.

This seems to be a lot of clicking.

The warning message is particularly irritating. It is a Microsoft Office
warning: “ Opening C:\Documents and Settings\...\VIDEO_TS.IFO
Some files can contain viruses or otherwise be harmful to your computer. It
is important to be certain that this is from a trustworthy source. Would you
like to open this file?â€

Is there some way to suppress this warning?

Is there some way to automatically invoke the play button when the action
button is invoked?

 

[Austin Myers]

You might look at PFCPro. It allows you to play a "clip" that you set with
out playing anything else. www.playsforcertain.com



Austin Myers
AT&W Technologies

Creators of PowerPoint add-ins

 

[Dave]

The solution to the error message can be found here:

"How to disable hyperlink warning messages in Office 2003"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/829072

It is method one. Basically, the trick is to identify the file associations
for the DVD playing program, and disable "confirm open after download".

Still haven't found a solution to one click playing of the DVD from
PowerPoint.