"QuickTime and TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture"

[David Rafner]

"QuickTime and TIFF (LZW) decompressor are needed to see this picture"

I get the above error on a slide in a PP presentation given to me by a
colleague who uses a Mac.
I have XP w/ PP03 with the latest free Apple QT app.
I read the Multimedia PP MVP tutorial on soniacoleman.com and wonder whether
I'm dead in the water because the XP MCI perhaps still doesn't support newer
QT. Maybe whatever needs to be displayed should be embedded as an object.
However, the error message leads me to suspect there is another codec that
could be added in.

Any thoughts as to how I can get around this problem?
Thanks, David R.

 

[Terry King]

The problem probably has nothing to do with QuickTime.
Microsoft's famously uninformative, useless and just plain
incorrect error messages are to blame for leading you
astray.

The first question is is the file actually a tiff or is it
a video clip? If it is a actually a tiff then the problem
lies with Powerpoint's inability to decompress an LZW
compressed tiff. Contrary to popular belief not all tiffs
are uncompressed, they can be RLE (run length encoded)
compressed with more than one flavor of LZW (Lempel-Ziv-
Welch)and many many more including JPEG compression!!!

See: home.earthlink.net/~ritter/tiff/ for a tiff faq

Microsoft's error messages while not explicitly blaming
Quicktime often lead us to that conclusion...

Terry King