Slide show with sound - strange behavior

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I generated a slideshow of about 60 slides, and made two versions...one
with a WAV sound file for background sound and one without sound. All
slides had multiple images and minimal text. The filesize without sound was
about 37 MB and with was 87 MB. Slide transition times were variable among
slides, but all wth a "dissolve" transition.

On the P2/300 Win98 computer used to generate the slideshow, with 384 MB
RAM, both shows run perfectly. On at least two other computers, one a
P4/1800 MH Win2000Pro with 1 GB RAM, the show without sound runs fine, but
with sound, the sound plays, but the show remains on slide #1 without
changing. I tried this both running from the CD on which the files were
burned, and after copying the files to the system HD.

The second problem is that on the Win2000Pro computer mentioned above
(uncertain on the other), when loaded, the first slide flashes as if it
turns on and off for each slide in the show, and if any change is made,
like scrolling to the next slide (possible anything requiring a screen
redraw), it does that flashing process - takes maybe 5-10 seconds to flash
through all 60 slides when this happens. But, the slide show plays OK
except the oen with sound as mentioned above.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!
Optiker
 
What version of PowerPoint did you create the presentation in? What version
of PowerPoint are you playing it in? Are you using the PowerPoint 2003
version on the other systems?
 
What version of PowerPoint did you create the presentation in? What version
of PowerPoint are you playing it in? Are you using the PowerPoint 2003
version on the other systems?
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2002 on both, but the playback one is SP2 and the one used for generating
the slide show may be older.

Optiker
 
When you open the presentation (the one on the CD) in PowerPoint and go to
Slide Show > Set Up Show, what do you have set under "Advance slides"? Is
it set to use timings, if present? Also, what are the custom animation
settings for the sound file? When you click on Slide 1 to advance, does the
music continue to play?
 
When you open the presentation (the one on the CD) in PowerPoint and go to
Slide Show > Set Up Show, what do you have set under "Advance slides"? Is
it set to use timings, if present?
yes

Also, what are the custom animation settings for the sound file?
Click to expand...

Modify: Fly in
Start: After Previous
From left Very fast
Action button: Start after Previous
When you click on Slide 1 to advance, does the music continue to play?
Click to expand...

No...slides advance automatically then, but music no longer plays.

As I said, it works fine on the computer it was created on.

Does that help any?

Thanks!

Optiker
 
The Custom Animation settings for the sound file should be something like:

Start playing From beginning
Stop playing after 99 slides
Start After Previous
Delay 0 seconds

Are you sure about the ones you have provided? Or are you animating an
object and applying the sound to it?
 
The Custom Animation settings for the sound file should be something like:

Start playing From beginning
Stop playing after 99 slides
Start After Previous
Delay 0 seconds

Are you sure about the ones you have provided? Or are you animating an
object and applying the sound to it?
Click to expand...

Sonia...you can probably tell, while I've used PowerPoint for many years,
I'm new at adding sound, animations,e tc.... so I don't really know how to
answer your question. There is an icon with a speaker shape on it at the
bottom left corner that "flies in" to the first slide when I start the
presentation with F5. That starts the sound. The settings I gave you are
the settings that I saw in the window that displayed properties of the
speaker icon - if I recall corectly from when I checked it an hour ago.
Perhaps I am doing it wrong, but I repeat, it works perfectly on the
computer I created it on.

I see you answered another post on this, so will look it up and try to
reinstall my WAV following those directions.

Thanks!
Optiker
 
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