Videos not playing in Powerpoint xp

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James W

I have recently upgraded my laptop with Powerpoint XP from
Powerpoint 2000. I now cannot get the videos in my
presentation to work at all. Can anyone help? Is there a
setting that I need to activiate. Thanks in advance
 
There are at least two ways for you to sort this out! You could read this excellent explanation: http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/multimedia.htm#How

or the idiot's solution is as follows:

Open Windows Movie Maker (it is in the Accessories folder). Open a new project, import your movie file, drag it to the timeline and then under "Finish Movie" save it to your computer. Now insert this new movie into PowerPoint. Since it is written in a codec that is installed on your machine, it should work.

Of course if you burn to a CD and take the CD to another computer, who can guarantee that the codec will be correct!

The joy of computers!

Terry
 
James, the URL Terry pointed you to is a good one.

Check specifically the part about testing your file in mplay32.exe. If the file doesn't play there, the next step is to edit your INI files (Win 98) or the registry (Win 2000/NT/XP). Registry settings are in the screenshots on that link.

Terry's suggestion about Movie Maker is also a good one, but hopefully the registry settings will take care of the problem.

Also make sure you have a short file path to your video. See http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;841022&Product=ppt
 
Thanks you for this useful advice.
All the presentations that contain these videos worked
perfectly well when used with Powerpoint 2000.

The reason I am making this point is because there are
quite a lot of presentation involved here. The user
involved is not happy to amend everything so things are
getting difficult. I will check the file location and name
to see the length.
Many Thanks.
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There are at least two ways for you to sort this out! You
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could read this excellent explanation:
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/multimedia
..htm#How
or the idiot's solution is as follows:

Open Windows Movie Maker (it is in the Accessories
Click to expand...
folder). Open a new project, import your movie file, drag
it to the timeline and then under "Finish Movie" save it
to your computer. Now insert this new movie into
PowerPoint. Since it is written in a codec that is
installed on your machine, it should work.
Of course if you burn to a CD and take the CD to another
Click to expand...
computer, who can guarantee that the codec will be
correct!
 
Well, maybe start by checking a couple of the files in mplay32.exe. If the files play there, at least you'll know it's not a codec issue. So that's a good starting place.

Also see if changing hardware accelerations makes a difference.

If one of those fixes the problems, then at least it's an easy fix so the user won't have to rework all his presentations and/or videos.

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Echo [MS PPT MVP]
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presenter, PPT Live '04
Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com
 
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