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Hello Steve,
The only way to avoid this is to use a different movie format (such as
WMV). PowerPoint uses MCI to play MPEG's and, because of the way MCI
handles in-place playing of MPEG's you will always get that black flash.
It should not occur, for example, if the movie is in *.AVI file format
(using Microsoft Video 1 encoding) since MCI handles playback of *.AVI
files different than MPEGs.
As usual, if you (or anyone else reading this message) think that it's
important that PowerPoint provide additional functionality in the area of
multimedia playback, don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS,
please) to Microsoft at:
http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp
As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also WHY it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible.
IMPORTANT: Each submission should be a single suggestion (not a list of
suggestions)
John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows
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