Sound and image in MHT or HTML file

[Rick Watson]

We would like to save some of our presentations into an mht file. When we
do that, on slides where we have both an audio file and an image, the audio
does not play. If we shrink the image down very small, and place the sound
icon well away from it, the sound still does not play nor is the icon
visible in the mht file. It appears the same happens in a save as html.
When I was asked to look into the problem, the sound files were .au files.
I converted one to a .wav and embedded it, but that hasn't helped. This
would be using Powerpoint 2007.

Has anyone experienced this and found a solution? I guess we could save as
and then add sound in by handwriting the code, but it appears they have a
lot of these they want to convert and I don't want to do it that way if I
don't have to.

Thanks,

Rick

 

[phtar]

Hi Rick,

If you save your presentation as html, all the animations and inserted
files will not be saved in the html webpage. If you want to save your
presentation as webpage with all the animations and sound retained, it
will be better for you to convert your presentation to Flash webpage.
Then all the animations, hyperlinks, sounds and videos will be
retained in the webpage.

You could try to convert your PowerPoint presentation to Flash,
ppt2flash (PowerPoint add-in, http://snipurl.com/ppt-swf), for
instance. It can help you create Flash-based presentation and html
webpage with all the original effects retained. Of course, all the
sound files will be embedded in the presentation. You can upload the
Flash-based webpage to your website with its smaller file size.

 

[Glen Millar]

Hi,

Why? Do not sounds and animations work? Which animations will not be saved?
--
Regards,

Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP
http://www.pptworkbench.com

 

[Michael Koerner]

Rick;

I would suggest you save your file as HTML rather than MHT. Saving to MHT
puts everything into one (depending on the size of the presentation) very
big file, where HTML breaks it up into a folder with files for every slide,
which makes it easier to use when on-line. to see how to add your music file
have a look here.
Sounds won't play across multiple slides on the web
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00303.htm

Also have a look here

Making PowerPoint 2002, PowerPoint 2003 and PowerPoint 2007 HTML open full
screen
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00428.htm


--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


We would like to save some of our presentations into an mht file. When we
do that, on slides where we have both an audio file and an image, the audio
does not play. If we shrink the image down very small, and place the sound
icon well away from it, the sound still does not play nor is the icon
visible in the mht file. It appears the same happens in a save as html.
When I was asked to look into the problem, the sound files were .au files.
I converted one to a .wav and embedded it, but that hasn't helped. This
would be using Powerpoint 2007.

Has anyone experienced this and found a solution? I guess we could save as
and then add sound in by handwriting the code, but it appears they have a
lot of these they want to convert and I don't want to do it that way if I
don't have to.

Thanks,

Rick

 

[Rick Watson]

Thanks for the reply Michael. I'll look that over more closely, but it
isn't quite the problem. Let's say we have an image on slides 6 and 12, and
we have voiceover sound files that plays on 6 and 12. It works perfect as a
pptx or ppt. But once it goes to html, we see the image but there is no
sound. It doesn't matter if it is set to automatic or to click to start.
In fact, the sound icon does not appear at all, even if it does on the pptx.

Again, thanks for your time,

Rick

 

[Michael Koerner]

When you look closer at the links I sent, you will see a link to an online
tutorial it explains it all

--
Michael Koerner
MS MVP - PowerPoint


Thanks for the reply Michael. I'll look that over more closely, but it
isn't quite the problem. Let's say we have an image on slides 6 and 12, and
we have voiceover sound files that plays on 6 and 12. It works perfect as a
pptx or ppt. But once it goes to html, we see the image but there is no
sound. It doesn't matter if it is set to automatic or to click to start.
In fact, the sound icon does not appear at all, even if it does on the pptx.

Again, thanks for your time,

Rick

 

[Rick Watson]

The files are published to html, and the sound and images are all in the
same folder with the html once done. The sound is 334kb. At this point
I've not uploaded it to the web, everything is in a folder on my C and I'm
just doing Open With IE, to eliminate Firefox issues.

Thanks,

Rick

 

[Rick Watson]

Thanks, I read the tutorial and tried the bgsound idea. It didn't seem to
work either. I was able to get to a point that the bgsound would play, but
the browser was giving the question to allow the ActiveX. Once I Ok'd that,
the image appeared and the sound stopped.

Thanks for your time,

Rick