Mediaplayer Ripped files wont insert in Powerpoint

[David]

Help!

I have installed version 10 and since upgrading to it, nothing I copy to the
library will insert into a PowerPoint slide.

I get a message saying that "PowerPoint can not insert a sound from the
selected file"


Someone once told me that when mplay32.exe can not play a file that it means
that a codec is wrong or that something is wrong with the MCI setup for the
computer. That is what is happening. mplay32 will not play any mp3 or wma
file I record with mediaplayer. It will play files I copied with an older
version of mediaplayer and Realplayer.

What codecs, drivers or modifications to MCI setup do I need in order to
make this work?

David

 

[Echo S]

Well, you can check
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/multimedia.htm for how PPT
handles multimedia. It has information on what your registry should look
like to support the MCI Media Player that PPT relies upon.

I suppose that something at http://www.echosvoice.com/tshoot_video2.htm
could help, but I suspect your issue may be with Digital Rights Management
in Windows Media Player.

 

[David]

Hello Echo,

You are a saint...

Your echosvoice troubleshooting page had the simple elegant solution that
nobody in 1 1/2 years of trying to fix this off and on ever mentioned.

The entire problem all along has been the 128 character length limitation of
mplay32.exe.

When we migrated all of our Powerpoint presentations to an XP based machine
it created those user accounts under Documents and Settings... the extra
characters in those nested directories meant that for some files, some not
all that the name of the media file was being truncated.

I have posted this question repeatedly, used Microsoft support. With their
guidance I have re-installed codecs, upgraded and reinstalled windows,
reinstalled drivers, upgraded hardware, upgraded PowerPoint, upgraded media
player and never gotten anywhere. I could play the darn clip in mplay32
manually. I could play the thing in media player but insert it into a
PowerPoint presentation and it would not work.

Moving the media library up to the C: root solved it.

Why doesn't Microsoft publicize that limitation anywhere?

David

Well, you can check
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/multimedia.htm for how
PPT
handles multimedia. It has information on what your registry should look
like to support the MCI Media Player that PPT relies upon.

I suppose that something at http://www.echosvoice.com/tshoot_video2.htm
could help, but I suspect your issue may be with Digital Rights Management
in Windows Media Player.

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Help!

I have installed version 10 and since upgrading to it, nothing I copy to the
library will insert into a PowerPoint slide.

I get a message saying that "PowerPoint can not insert a sound from the
selected file"


Someone once told me that when mplay32.exe can not play a file that it means
that a codec is wrong or that something is wrong with the MCI setup for the
computer. That is what is happening. mplay32 will not play any mp3 or
wma
file I record with mediaplayer. It will play files I copied with an older
version of mediaplayer and Realplayer.

What codecs, drivers or modifications to MCI setup do I need in order to
make this work?

David





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