Video in PowerPoint

[Brent]

I have inserted a Microsoft media clip as an object on a
slide but the player will not open the avi file that I
direct it to during the slide show. An error message
appears stating the 'vids: dvsd' decompressor cannot be
found. Sounds like a codec.

The avi files will open through MS Media Player (ver 8.0
and 9.0) but not the player built into PowerPoint (ver
5.1). Is there a way to update the internal PowerPoint
player?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Sonia]

Did you upgrade DirectX and Windows Media Player as Glenna suggested?

 

[Media Man]

You can play with DirectX and codecs as Sonia explains on her website, or
you can encode the video into a "nicer" format like MPEG1. AVI files,
depending on how they were encoded, will not play on all PCs. MPEG1 is much
more universal.

KK.
*** http://FootageShack.com - Buy and Sell stock video footage for
presentations ***

 

[Echo S]

Sounds as if your AVI came from your digital camera. More than likely
it's created with a proprietary codec.

http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com/powerpointtips.htm (at the bottom)
is worth a read. Perhaps changing the file extension to MPEG will work
in this case as well.

Otherwise, I'd resave the AVI using video editing software so that it's
compressed with a more standard codec. Or maybe use Windows Movie Maker
to save as a WMV and see if that works.