Video Sputters and stalls

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Bruce R. Talbot

I thought it was just my laptop, but a new PowerPoint program I wrote for a
co-worker with two new WVM video clips also sputters and stalls. It
sputters/stalls so bad the co-worker refuses to show the program.

Both laptops are both running Windows XP Home (details on mine are: Service
Pack 1 and are newer high-end machines (Toshiba Satellite, Pentium 4 Mobil
CPU 2.00 GHz, 512 RAM with a NVIDIA GeForce4 460 with 64 MB of video ram,
hardware acceleration is Full. His laptop is newer and roughly same or
better).

The two video clips are in the same file folder as the PowerPoint program
and place on the desktop to shorten the file path name. One video is 55 MB
the other 23 MB.

One suggestion was to run Disk Clean-up and then Defragment the hard drive
the night before presenting but that has not helped either. Now I know the
files are OK because the video clips play flawlessly in Microsoft Media
Player. The video only sputters and stalls in PowerPoint. I use Presenter
View with cloned monitors and my co-worker does not use presenter view and
no cloning and his stalls too. Being able to play video clips in PowerPoint
could be a great add in presenting but until the stalling can be fixed I can
not get anyone to use it.

Suggestions welcomed,

Bruce Talbot ([email protected])
 
Hello Bruce,

A real can of worms here. First, I prefer avi to wmv, but I don't use it
much anyway. Second, even if it plays in Windows Media Player, please read
this from Echo.

http://www.echosvoice.com/tshoot_video2.htm

Next, the path to your desktop can still be long, as it usually goes through
your username and so forth. Maybe make a folder on your c:\ drive specially
for it. Also, when you say a "new PowerPoint program I wrote", are you
mucking with vba?

--
Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
http://www.powerpointworkbench.com/
Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004
October 10-13, San Diego CA
http://www.powerpointlive.com
 
Placing files on the desktop is not a way to shorten the path length.
The path to my desktop is C:\Documents and Settings\Adam\Desktop\Folder and
it would be longer still if my name was Archimedes.
I'd look at that first - Put a folder on your C: drive somewhere like
c:\Presentation.
Also check you have the latest Direct X (9.0b I think at the moment).
 
it would be longer still if my name was Archimedes
If your name was Plato you'd stand a better chance ;)

TAJ
 
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