I can't insert mpegs into my presentation.

[Michael]

I'm running XP Professional with Quicktime 5, MainActor 5 (video editing), Trainersoft 8, and PhotoImpact 8. Apparently one of these other softwares I'm running, has replaced some drivers and .dll's. I've downloaded the mciqtz.drv, but I can't find the MPEG16.dll or mciqtw.drv to fill in the blanks in my system configurations. I've run into the same problem with Trainersoft 8. I can insert .wmv's into both PowerPoint and Trainersoft 8 but an mpeg causes Trainersoft to crash and Power Point gives a "couldn't insert a movie from the selected file. Either it's non-standard or Quick Time was not properly installed." error. I've read the Q212409 Knowledge Base Article and I've read Austin Myers tutorial. As far as I can tell I need the two items above but I'm wondering if I need to uninstall Quicktime 5 and install Quicktime 3 considering that's where the MCI problems begin. Thanks for your help.

 

[Austin Myers]

Michael,

With such a hodge podge of multimedia software on the machine I am surprised
you get any of it to work with the MCI player at all. It's why I caution
against installing them on any machine you are seriously using for
PowerPoint.

Were it me I would remove them and then roll the system back to a backup
point and start from there.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

I'm running XP Professional with Quicktime 5, MainActor 5 (video editing),

Trainersoft 8, and PhotoImpact 8. Apparently one of these other softwares
I'm running, has replaced some drivers and .dll's. I've downloaded the
mciqtz.drv, but I can't find the MPEG16.dll or mciqtw.drv to fill in the
blanks in my system configurations. I've run into the same problem with
Trainersoft 8. I can insert .wmv's into both PowerPoint and Trainersoft 8
but an mpeg causes Trainersoft to crash and Power Point gives a "couldn't
insert a movie from the selected file. Either it's non-standard or Quick
Time was not properly installed." error. I've read the Q212409 Knowledge
Base Article and I've read Austin Myers tutorial. As far as I can tell I
need the two items above but I'm wondering if I need to uninstall Quicktime
5 and install Quicktime 3 considering that's where the MCI problems begin.
Thanks for your help.

 

[Michael]

Austin

I tried to going to Start, Run, and putting in mplayer.exe and mplayer32.exe and it can't find the player. Is this because I'm running XP or because the "hodge podge" has replaced the MCI player.

 

[Echo S]

Michael, try mplay32.exe

Echo