Presentation Video Playback

[Matt]

Help.. I am trying to overcome a problem I am having with
playing 3 basic movies within a short PowerPoint 2003
(Office 2003) presentation. It is the simplist of
presentations consisting of two MPEG-2 movies and one MPEG-
1 movie, each movie lasting 1 minute in length. PP2003
uses it's "Pack n' Go" wizard to create the CDR (complete
with PP viewer). I can run the Autoplay CDR on my PC fine.

I then tried it on a 2.4Ghz Pentium/512Mb/WinXP laptop,
and 3 higher spec'd full PC's. The playback of the movies
are completely unreliable on each one and there is a
random order of which movie will actually play. If a movie
doesn't play then I get a white or black hole. Potentially
I can click outside the movie and it will move onto the
next one and this too may or may not play.

If I open Powerpoint or the 2003 Viewer first on these
other computers, I again experience playback just not
working. To add, in PP nothing happens when you right-
click and select "Play Movie" over the MPEG-2, but MPEG-1
seems to always play.

If on any of these other computers I use Media Player,
PowerDVD, Nero Showtime or Other, the individual .mpg
files play perfectly from the CD and everytime.

Whilst I am getting anxious to create some "real"
presentations for lectures on recent laptops, that are
reliable, I have come to you to ask for a solution or help
that would solve my problem. It does appear to me that the
PP and Viewer just aren't handling the mix of movie types
but I can't understand why.

I appreciate any help you can give me on this.

Many thanks,
Matt.

 

[Echo S]

I have a feeling that the other computers don't have the necessary codecs
for the MPEG2 movies. If you convert those to MPEG1 using the same settings
as the existing MPEG1, do they play then?

 

[Matt]

Hi,
Thanks for the reply. The machines that I tested on were
fully up to date modern XP machines, each with additional
new DVD software players installed. They really should
have played them without any problem. It appears to me to
be a problem in the way the PowerPoint Viewer is handling
these movies, but as I said, they each play individually
everytime when using Media Player/PowerDVD etc..

I will try recoding as MPEG-1 and re-producing my
presentation and report back.

Thanks,
Matt.

-----Original Message-----
I have a feeling that the other computers don't have the necessary codecs
for the MPEG2 movies. If you convert those to MPEG1 using the same settings
as the existing MPEG1, do they play then?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

Help.. I am trying to overcome a problem I am having with
playing 3 basic movies within a short PowerPoint 2003
(Office 2003) presentation. It is the simplist of
presentations consisting of two MPEG-2 movies and one MPEG-
1 movie, each movie lasting 1 minute in length. PP2003
uses it's "Pack n' Go" wizard to create the CDR (complete
with PP viewer). I can run the Autoplay CDR on my PC fine.

I then tried it on a 2.4Ghz Pentium/512Mb/WinXP laptop,
and 3 higher spec'd full PC's. The playback of the movies
are completely unreliable on each one and there is a
random order of which movie will actually play. If a movie
doesn't play then I get a white or black hole. Potentially
I can click outside the movie and it will move onto the
next one and this too may or may not play.

If I open Powerpoint or the 2003 Viewer first on these
other computers, I again experience playback just not
working. To add, in PP nothing happens when you right-
click and select "Play Movie" over the MPEG-2, but MPEG- 1
seems to always play.

If on any of these other computers I use Media Player,
PowerDVD, Nero Showtime or Other, the individual .mpg
files play perfectly from the CD and everytime.

Whilst I am getting anxious to create some "real"
presentations for lectures on recent laptops, that are
reliable, I have come to you to ask for a solution or help
that would solve my problem. It does appear to me that the
PP and Viewer just aren't handling the mix of movie types
but I can't understand why.

I appreciate any help you can give me on this.

Many thanks,
Matt.

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