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Tijana
I discovered some time ago that wav files wont play in my ppt presentations.
They used to, but at some point something happened and now wav files dont
play, while mp3 files play ok in my ppt presentations. Also, the same wav
files play fine in windows media player.
Here is what I've tried so far and dodn't help:
I've checked to see that the links aren't broken, and made new presentations
embedding new wav files, but still doesnt play.
I've increased max file size to 50,000.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled the entire office suite.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled K'Lite codec pack as well as winamp (in
case the problem was caused by codec conflict).
With each reinstallation I cleaned the registry first.
Non of these solved my problem.
It now looks to me like there is some problem with how powerpoint is
embedding wav files but dont know what to do about it even if that is the
problem.
John Wilson had a suggestion to read Austin's tutorial, and I did but the
advice there was to test the MCI player and reinstall Windows Media Player.
However
I run Vista and thus those wont work since Vista does not have MCI player
there is no way in Vista to uninstall Windows Media Player
and no way to download it from Microsoft website (they just have Windows
Media Player for XP).
So I'm still stuck with the only option being to reinstall of the entire
Vista, which frankly scares me because I have dual boot with SuSe Linux, and
windows reinstallation always messes things up in my Linux.
I have to give a talk this week using this presentation that has many wav
files so I have to get this fixed one way or the other, soon.
If anyone has some idea about this I'd really appreciate the help.
They used to, but at some point something happened and now wav files dont
play, while mp3 files play ok in my ppt presentations. Also, the same wav
files play fine in windows media player.
Here is what I've tried so far and dodn't help:
I've checked to see that the links aren't broken, and made new presentations
embedding new wav files, but still doesnt play.
I've increased max file size to 50,000.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled the entire office suite.
I've uninstalled and reinstalled K'Lite codec pack as well as winamp (in
case the problem was caused by codec conflict).
With each reinstallation I cleaned the registry first.
Non of these solved my problem.
It now looks to me like there is some problem with how powerpoint is
embedding wav files but dont know what to do about it even if that is the
problem.
John Wilson had a suggestion to read Austin's tutorial, and I did but the
advice there was to test the MCI player and reinstall Windows Media Player.
However
I run Vista and thus those wont work since Vista does not have MCI player
there is no way in Vista to uninstall Windows Media Player
and no way to download it from Microsoft website (they just have Windows
Media Player for XP).
So I'm still stuck with the only option being to reinstall of the entire
Vista, which frankly scares me because I have dual boot with SuSe Linux, and
windows reinstallation always messes things up in my Linux.
I have to give a talk this week using this presentation that has many wav
files so I have to get this fixed one way or the other, soon.
If anyone has some idea about this I'd really appreciate the help.