Video Playback in PowerPoint

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I have received a very large presentation from a client that includes video
clips. I have loaded this onto both desktop and PC stations. The problem I'm
experiencing is that some, not all, of the video clips have picture stutter
but the sound is ok. It plays fine on the client's lap top even though it was
produced by a third party. Can anyone suggest solutions?

Thanks
 
Video playback in PowerPoint is very CPU intensive. A machine with less
hardware capabilities (CPU, memory, bus speed, etc) will play the video
poorly. It will play differently on different machines.
 
I suspect what is happening is that your machine doesn't have the exact
codec required, is substituting something that is close (Example: Divx 4
instead of Divx5) and the result is less than desirable playback.

Can you play the the video in the MCI player (NOT Windows Media Player)
properly?


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com
 
Thank you for your replies. The system spec that I have been running this on
is 1 gig of RAM, Pentium 4 processor and a dedicated graphics card of 256
meg. Austin, not sure what you mean by MCI Player but if I double click on
the video file not in powerpoint then I stil get the same effect. The client
has an IBM lap top which I don't know what spec but our lap top is an up to
date Compaq.

Can you tell me how to find out about the codec, what I need versus how I
find what i've got?

Many thanks.
 
Hi, just to add further information that might help. The video clips are all
MPEG1 and have been encoded at a bit rate of 3. I trust this makes sense to
you! I have also just run the clips in Realplayer and the same effect occurs
but what I have also noticed is that it happens at the same point in the
video everytime.

Appreciate your help during this Xmas break.
 
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