Will a ppt or pps file stream for a user if I post on my web site?

[Bill Weylock]

I want to post a presentation so that clients can watch it over the web.

It includes, as a major feature, slides that contain only a headline and a
wmv movie.

If I save as a Package for CD and upload the whole thing, will clients be
able to play the presentation from the web, or will they have to download
the whole thing? Is that even the right approach to this??

The instructions for publishing for the web give me only the ppt file but
none of the media.

It¹s not a deal breaker if they have to download the whole thing in order to
play, but I would prefer in that case to give them a fool-proof zip file.

Any recommendations? (please?)

Thanks!

It¹s hard for me to ask the right question about this because I know so
little about how ppt behaves from the web.


Best,


- Bill

Panther 10.3.6
Office 2004
Windows XP Pro SP2
Office 2003

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Bill,

Package for CD is intended for just that: making a package you can burn to CD
and distribute that way. It's not meant for putting presentions on the web.

At least not directly.

You could package up a presentation to a folder, which should ensure that the
links are sorted out and so forth, then zip up the results and have the end
user download that, unzip to a folder on their HDD and run from there.

Which is about where you arrived under your own not inconsiderable cogitational
horsepower. ;-)

Seriously, the zip file does seem like the best option, but let P4CD move
everything to a staging folder first and zip that up.

 

[Austin Myers]

If I can offer an alternative. I've build an add in to PPT that provides a
method to link to streaming media. The advantage being that the
presentation can be quite small and you retain control of the media as it is
streamed to the user instead of being contained in the presentation. There
is a 14 free trial that is fully functionall at www.pfcmedia.com . Use it
to build your presentation and discard the add in if you don't feel it's
worth the cost to register it or doesn't meet your needs.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Solutions to Multimedia in PowerPoint www.pfcmedia.com