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I have a customer who presents a 100 MB PowerPoint, with three embedded
videos, with sizes of 106 MB, 194 MB and 224 MB respectfully. The brief /
videos are hosted on a network share. Occasionally the videos will lockup
and transition from slide to slide is not as quick as the presenter is
expecting. The customer would like a solution that were their are no
lockups, etc...


Thanks for any input....
 
I have a customer who presents a 100 MB PowerPoint, with three embedded
videos, with sizes of 106 MB, 194 MB and 224 MB respectfully. The brief /
videos are hosted on a network share.
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The videos are linked, not embedded (minor quibble). Have you tried hosting
the videos on the local machine, at least as a test? That'd take the network
out of the picture and would tell you whether it's a network problem or
something else.

Occasionally the videos will lockup
 
1) Copy the folder with the files onto the local hard drive first. (The
videos were linked after they were copied into the same folder, weren't
they? If not, do so now and avoid a major headache). Network speeds (even
the good ones) are far slower than hard drive access speeds.

2) Reduce the resolution of the presentation and videos to what can be used.
Having pictures that are too detailed uses up CPU cycles in moving and
processing, without adding anything to the presentation quality. 100 MB
seems like a fairly large presentation size. The computer has to move all
this data around, make adjustments (if called for) and often off-load parts
it can not keep in RAM back to the hard drive (very slow process with large
files). Smaller files load quicker.


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