video playback

[Guest]

Is there a way to get clips from youTube and or Google that can be played
back in PPT

as always thanks.....

 

[Austin Myers]

Bill,

The video files from Google have a file extension of *.gvi. They are
really nothing more than a standard avi file but,,, Google puts a goofy
file header containing the wrong FourCC codec information in them
specifically so they won't work properly with a Windows Media player.
(Guess they want you to use their player.)

There are a number of freeware apps on the net to change the codec
information and search should turn up lots of them for you.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia, PFCPro, PFCExpress
http://www.pfcmedia.com

 

[TAJ Simmons]

Bill B,

You do have copyright clearance to use the material don't you?

If so, You need to convert the file from the proprietary format to something
powerpoint likes.

One such piece of software is the very good 'Super'
http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

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