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I'm trying to insert a movie wmv file but nothing happens it doesn't even
appear on the screen.

Does anyone have any ideas?

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Shona
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Can't insert .wmv files into PowerPoint 97.

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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]


I'm trying to insert a movie wmv file but nothing happens it doesn't even
appear on the screen.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Cheers

Shona
Please reply to newsgroups only - thanks
 
*.WMVs will insert here into PPT 97. Then again, I have everything from
PPT 95 through PPT 2003 on my system, so maybe that has something to do
with it?

This might be worth a shot, Shona. Have a read at
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/multimedia.htm Test the
WMV file in the MCI Media Player as described by playing it in either
mplay32.exe or mplayer.exe (depending on your version of Windows).

If the file doesn't play in the MCI Media Player, then check your
registry or INI settings (again, depending on your version of Windows)
and ensure that they match those listed in the tutorial.

Hopefully that will take care of it.
 
That could be it. WMV's weren't around when 97 came into being. Unfortunately, I
can't test as I no longer have 97.




*.WMVs will insert here into PPT 97. Then again, I have everything from
PPT 95 through PPT 2003 on my system, so maybe that has something to do
with it?

This might be worth a shot, Shona. Have a read at
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/multimedia.htm Test the
WMV file in the MCI Media Player as described by playing it in either
mplay32.exe or mplayer.exe (depending on your version of Windows).

If the file doesn't play in the MCI Media Player, then check your
registry or INI settings (again, depending on your version of Windows)
and ensure that they match those listed in the tutorial.

Hopefully that will take care of it.
 
Thanks for this I've managed to insert it now with the drag and drop but now
it doesn't play immediately. I have to double click on it and then it comes
up with an error message unable to download an appropriate decompressor

Hope to hear from you
Shona
 
Something that used to work in 97 was to insert sound from file, select the
display all files option, navigate to your wmv select and insert it, and see if
that works. Not saying that it will work with wmv files, but did work with
either mp3 or mpeg files, can't recall right now which one.

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Michael Koerner [MS PPT MVP]


Thanks for this I've managed to insert it now with the drag and drop but now
it doesn't play immediately. I have to double click on it and then it comes
up with an error message unable to download an appropriate decompressor

Hope to hear from you
Shona
 
If I'm not mistaken, drag and drop would create an OLE instance of the
WMV. So, whatever program you have Windows set to play WMV by default
would be called upon to play the WMV. That might be the MCI Media Player
which PPT uses to play multimedia when it's inerted as with
Insert/Movies and Sounds, or it might be something like the Windows
Media Player. I think the latter is probably more likely.

I tried it the drag and drop here with my known good WMV, and LOL!
Windows XP crashed bigger than I've ever seen it crash before! I got a
blank blue screen (not exactly the infamous blue screen of death, but
close enough) with too much text for me to read before the system shut
down and rebooted. I got a "serious error" dialog when it rebooted, and
MS's online crash analysis just says "A device driver installed on your
system caused the problem, but we cannot determine the precise cause."
Dang.

So the upshot is that I'm not sure what's going on on your end, but the
"unable to download an appropriate decompressor" leads me back to my
original suggestion to check the PPT/Multimedia tutorial, test the WMV
in the MCI media player, and make sure your MCI (registry or INI)
settings match those described in the tutorial, and you might also make
sure the WMV is using a standard codec as described in the tutorial.

Echo
 
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