Videos start vs. slide advance

[Guest]

Desparate for quick help on this! I upgraded to PPT 2007 and the slide
advance behaves differently with my slides that have videos. Whether I
"click" or "scroll" or hit the space bar, or pick the advance button on
presenter view - any of these actions to advance the slide (after the video
has played) will actually start the video again (the videos are set to play
on click), instead of advancing the slide. So the darn video starts to play
a second time, then I have to interupt it by "advancing the slide" again -
which works the second time.

Help!!

Richard

 

[Echo S]

I have seen this behavior in 2003 and prior versions as well. Basically, the
mouse is in the center of the screen, directly on top of the video in the
middle of the slide. When you click, meaning to advance, PPT senses it as a
click on the video and restarts it.

Only way I know around it is to move the mouse off the video before clicking
any of the advance mechanisms. Oh, but if you use the down arrow on the
keyboard to advance, it might not restart the video. Worth a shot.

And now that you mention it, perhaps in 2003 and prior only an actual mouse
click restarts the video? Maybe the space bar and other options don't do
that. (I haven't looked at it for a long time, so I can't remember for sure.
Anyway, if that's the case, I'd say we have a bona fide bug in 2007, then.)

 

[Guest]

Its not the mouse cursor resting on the video because I'm using the mouse
curser to advance the slide in the presenter view. Can you think of anything
else? Anyone?

Desperate,

Richard

I have seen this behavior in 2003 and prior versions as well. Basically, the
mouse is in the center of the screen, directly on top of the video in the
middle of the slide. When you click, meaning to advance, PPT senses it as a
click on the video and restarts it.

Only way I know around it is to move the mouse off the video before clicking
any of the advance mechanisms. Oh, but if you use the down arrow on the
keyboard to advance, it might not restart the video. Worth a shot.

And now that you mention it, perhaps in 2003 and prior only an actual mouse
click restarts the video? Maybe the space bar and other options don't do
that. (I haven't looked at it for a long time, so I can't remember for sure.
Anyway, if that's the case, I'd say we have a bona fide bug in 2007, then.)

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Desparate for quick help on this! I upgraded to PPT 2007 and the slide
advance behaves differently with my slides that have videos. Whether I
"click" or "scroll" or hit the space bar, or pick the advance button on
presenter view - any of these actions to advance the slide (after the
video
has played) will actually start the video again (the videos are set to
play
on click), instead of advancing the slide. So the darn video starts to
play
a second time, then I have to interupt it by "advancing the slide" again -
which works the second time.

Help!!

Richard