Powerpoint Video through an LCD Projector

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Terry Duncan

My apologies if this has been addressed before by this learned group.

I do a lot of work inserting videos and sound into presentations - as do all
of you I would guess. When I go through the presentation on my laptop,
either of them, the video format (AVI, mpeg variations, etc.) play fine, but
when I use the LCD along with the laptop, all I get is a black screen on the
LCD image. The sound, of course, works fine, but I only get image on the
laptop. When I convert the video to AVI, it works fine on both outputs.

If I use the function key to set up with only the LCD showing an image, the
videos will work.

Any help that you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

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I've always interpreted this behavior (show video on only one output
device) as a sign of lack of oomph -- most likely in the graphics card,
but also possibly in the CPU or some driver.

My older laptops could drive the video on only one output device --
either the laptop itself or the LCD projector, but not both. The
current laptops that I use -- Toshiba 3500 and M200 -- can easily show a
video on both the laptop screen and the projector.

Something I just thought of...may not pan out but, then again, it
might...experiment with PP's use of graphics hardware acceleration
and/or the Windows use of graphics hardware acceleration.

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Tushar,

for future reference....


what graphics cards to these lappies have?

Maybe steve could add it to the FAQ pages
Click to expand...

Since drivers and video card specs change faster than I can type, I could make
a long, unprofitable and ultimately futile career of keeping ... no, TRYING to
keep ... a page like that updated. <g>

OTOH, on the page Echo mentions, there are links to some of the main graphics
card makers.
 
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