Slideshow plays on my machine (ppt and pps) but not on another

[RandRobinson]

I have a year old powerful Dell machine. I am running Office 2003. I have a
Powerpoint with lots of video clips and some swfs embedded in it. It plays in
Slide show mode and .pps on my machine fine. WhenI move it to an older
machine, with a new hard drive, RAM and video card it does two things:
1) It runs fine until it is time to start over, then it hangs up on the
first slide (which has an embedded swf file) and just loops. I have rebuilt
the pps several times. This is living on the C drive of the computer, so it
si local.
2) There is a wmv file 6 min 13 sec long on a slide-I have keyed in the
transistion time of 6 min 20 sec- and the video plays to anywhere from 5 min
to 5 40 sec.
No matter how much time I set on the transition it doesn't play to the end.

 

[Troy @ TLC]

..SWFs and PowerPoint are tricky. There is lots of good info on the (search
SWF or Flash at pptfaq.com), but the basics are, they play but PPT does not
respect any play commands in them. This includes the ability to stop at the
end of the swf and reset itself. Because you note it is when the
presentation loops you see the issue, it is important to figure out that the
..swf just keeps playing after you have left the slide. If you come back to
the slide you see the .swf at whatever point it happens to be. So on an
older system this constant background playing of .swf's is going to affect
performance.

Solution:
You can install the free FLASHBACK add-in that rewinds the .swf to the
beginning when you leave the slide or stops it from looping if it gets to
the end while viewing the slide. Get it here
(http://skp.mvps.org/flashback.htm).
Note: this is a solution only on a computer you control, as the add-in must
be installed on each computer to resolve issue.

On the .wmv movie the .swf's may be your issue. Playback timing is not
precise in PowerPoint. A presentation for the most part does not playback at
same timing from computer-to-computer, or even on same computer depending on
what else is taking up computer processing power. I would recommend adding
an animation (anything, even if it animates off the screen) and set it to be
AFTER PREVIOUS (eg. something animates after the movie is done playing).
Then set the slide to transition automatically - which is automatically
after the last animation.

 

[RandRobinson]

Troy,
Thanks for the info. I will try it and see what happens.
--
RandRobinson

..SWFs and PowerPoint are tricky. There is lots of good info on the (search
SWF or Flash at pptfaq.com), but the basics are, they play but PPT does not
respect any play commands in them. This includes the ability to stop at the
end of the swf and reset itself. Because you note it is when the
presentation loops you see the issue, it is important to figure out that the
..swf just keeps playing after you have left the slide. If you come back to
the slide you see the .swf at whatever point it happens to be. So on an
older system this constant background playing of .swf's is going to affect
performance.

Solution:
You can install the free FLASHBACK add-in that rewinds the .swf to the
beginning when you leave the slide or stops it from looping if it gets to
the end while viewing the slide. Get it here
(http://skp.mvps.org/flashback.htm).
Note: this is a solution only on a computer you control, as the add-in must
be installed on each computer to resolve issue.

On the .wmv movie the .swf's may be your issue. Playback timing is not
precise in PowerPoint. A presentation for the most part does not playback at
same timing from computer-to-computer, or even on same computer depending on
what else is taking up computer processing power. I would recommend adding
an animation (anything, even if it animates off the screen) and set it to be
AFTER PREVIOUS (eg. something animates after the movie is done playing).
Then set the slide to transition automatically - which is automatically
after the last animation.