save as html, movies with relative paths

[Guest]

I have a ppt slide that contains (a link to) a movie (wmv), with a custom
animation on the movie. I need to convert this ppt slide to html, burn it to
disk and eventally release this to my client...

Problem(s)
1 - When I publish (ensuring that the "Show slide animation while browsing"
option is selected) to html, burn to disk and try to view the html slide from
a client's laptop, the movie does not play. Curiously, if I open the original
ppt slide on the client's laptop, the movie plays fine. Any idea what going
on here?

2 - Looking at the html and xml files - I noticed they contain hardcoded
paths to the movie files - I need these to be relative as I have now burned
them to a CD - and can't have references to the original movie's location
(its on a networked drive and I can't assume that all my clients will be able
to "reach" my network drive....)

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

I have a ppt slide that contains (a link to) a movie (wmv), with a custom
animation on the movie. I need to convert this ppt slide to html, burn it to
disk and eventally release this to my client...

Problem(s)
1 - When I publish (ensuring that the "Show slide animation while browsing"
option is selected) to html, burn to disk and try to view the html slide from
a client's laptop, the movie does not play. Curiously, if I open the original
ppt slide on the client's laptop, the movie plays fine. Any idea what going
on here?

2 - Looking at the html and xml files - I noticed they contain hardcoded
paths to the movie files - I need these to be relative as I have now burned
them to a CD - and can't have references to the original movie's location
(its on a networked drive and I can't assume that all my clients will be able
to "reach" my network drive....)

As to #2, the usual trick for making movie paths relative in PPT is:

Put the movie file in the same folder as the PPT itself
Then (and only then) insert the movie

Whether this works for PPT converted to HTML or not is left, as they say, as an
exercise for the interested reader. That'd be you. <g>

Let us know how it works out?

 

[Guest]

I made modifications to the html on my PC so that the paths were relative the
folder that the html file was in... and it works fine on my PC!

Unfortunately, when I burn the html files to a disk, and open them on my
client laptop, the movie does not respond...

Any ideas why it would work on my PC but not run correctly off a disk?