videos dont play properly in power point

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daviddoria

I made some short clips and saved them to avi (I forget which codec, its on a
different computer). I read that a good test if it is "power point
compatible" is to open it with media player classic (start -> run -> mplayer2
(with windows XP)). It opened and played with no problems. The thing is, when
I add it to a presentation, the video plays (ie doesn't complain about a
missing codec), but it is has big black squares covering most of it!! I have
a very fast computer and a very good video card so I can't imagine it has
anything to do with the hardware (I also run lots of video/photo editing
software with no problems)?

1) what is the proper/best codec to use?
2) why would it do this ? (since I don't think it even is a codec thing)

Any input would be great!

Thanks,

Dave
 
It seems a bit silly that I'd have to buy something to make this work with
something I already bought. Is there any other way to make this work better?
 
Try to tranform yoour avi file into wmv file (with Windows Movie Maker) anad
insert this last file into PPT
 
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