I just posted a similar question to this group a few days
ago about playing DV encoded avi's within ppt...
A reply from Adam Crowley re: a tip by Taj suggested
changing the file extension from .avi to .mpg
Worked like a champ and looked great in ppt2k, win2k on a
1.5 ghz machine.
720 x 480 x 30 fps... cool!
A couple of gotcha's however...
Everything looks stretched horizontally because of the
difference in aspect ratio between pixels on a computer
screen and a video monitor. So round things look oval and
squares look rectangular.
DV files are huge, about 1GB per 5 minutes. This means if
you need to burn the ppt plus video file to a CD you can
only fit about 3 minutes of video on the CD.
Terry King