dropped frames playing movie

[Fred Woekel]

PowerPoint 2002.
2.4 GHz P4
768 MB 266-DDR Ram
128 MB ATI Radeon 9000 Dual Head clone

We are a church that uses PowerPoint for projecting
announcements, song lyrics and sermon notes. We like to
use the presenter view for playing our shows and send the
show through the second video output to a video projector.
More and more we are using video clips(mostly MPEG2 files
created in Adobe Premier)for our worship services. If we
play these files through a software DVD player and the
second video output they play fine. If played as an
inserted movie in PowerPoint through the second video
output without presenter view, they play fine, but, if we
turn on presenter view there are a lot of dropped frames
with jerky playback. The computer originally only had 256
MB of ram, so I added a 512 MB module but it didn't help.
Is this still not enough ram? Any other ideas?

Thanks,
Fred w.

 

[Austin Myers]

Fred,

Have you done your house keeping lately? By that I mean, delete all temp
files on the system and then run defrag.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP team