Unable to insert movies from file

[Steve Miller]

Hi 'all,

I am running Office XP with SP2. I have a user who is
using Adobe Premier 6.5 to make certain movies for
medical presentations. User saves the movie files as
standard AVI files.

When the user tries to insert the Movie into a PowerPoint
slide, he gets this error message:
Media Player: Cannot display this type of sound or movie

What's bizzare is that this same AVI file plays
flawlessly when you open it up with Windows Media Player
ver 9.

So I went about this another way. What I tried to do was
Insert-->Object-->Media Clip. From there, when I try to
insert the AVI file, I get this error:
Madia Player: There is no driver installed on your
system.

Anyone seen this before and can help?

-Steve

 

[Sonia]

Read through the tutorial at
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/multimedia.htm and you'll
begin to see that it's a very complex issue. The bottom line is that the
Windows Media Player is not used by PowerPoint. Take a close look at the
third section and verify that the MCI settings on the system match
*exactly*.