Sound on PC but not on Mac

[chuck5566]

Having trouble getting sound out of slideshows when playing on the Mac.

I get .ppt files via e-mail on an account on my PC (XP) and on my Mac (10.4.6).

On the PC the sound plays. On the Mac it does not. Often the same
..ppt files. I have Windows Media Player 9 installed on the Mac. I
have Office 2003 on the PC and Office 2004 on the Mac.

Hopefully this is an old, well known but fixable problem.

TIA,
Chuck

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Having trouble getting sound out of slideshows when playing on the Mac.

I get .ppt files via e-mail on an account on my PC (XP) and on my Mac (10.4.6).

On the PC the sound plays. On the Mac it does not. Often the same
..ppt files. I have Windows Media Player 9 installed on the Mac. I
have Office 2003 on the PC and Office 2004 on the Mac.

Are the sounds embedded or linked? That is, on the PC, do you have just the
presentation file, one that plays no matter what folder you put it in, or do you
have multiple files?

If there are also sound files, what format are they in?

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[chuck5566]

Are the sounds embedded or linked? That is, on the PC, do you have
just the presentation file, one that plays no matter what folder you
put it in, or do you have multiple files?

If there are also sound files, what format are they in?

There seems to only be the presentation file. It plays straight from
the e-mail msg or from any folder I save it to.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

There seems to only be the presentation file. It plays straight from
the e-mail msg or from any folder I save it to.

Which almost certainly means that the sound is embedded. Usually this means WAV
files, which *should* be x-platform compatible, but there are ways of hiding MP3s in
WAV clothing; I wonder if this is what you have.

On the PC, you can save the presentation as HTML to extract the sounds. You might
want to try that, see how large the sound files are.


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