.wmv playback in PPT 2000 in Windows 2000

[Neal]

I've been inserting .wmv files into powerpoint for a couple of years with great success and positive results. Occasionally, I get someone who says that the presentation runs fine but the video file(.wmv) will not play. I've read your multimedia tutorial recently and was enlightened by it, finding out that Windows Media Player has nothing to do with playing video clips in PPT, instead, it's the MCI. I recently had my computer re-imaged by our IT people and have come to find that I am no longer able to insert and play .wmv's from ppt (they play fine in windows media player). Since the re-imaging/re-installation I know that I have installed/upgraded to windows media player 9 and Quicktime 6, I suspect that QT 6 is the culprit in screwing up my MCI. I checked my registries (MCI extensions and MCI132) against what the tutorial had listed and deleted the quicktime extensions to match the tutorial's list, still I can't play .wmv's from the MCI. The prompt I get from powerpoint when the movie doesn't play is "Powerpoint could not insert a movie from the selected file. The file is either non-standard or Quicktime has not been installed corectly". I'm guessing that my MCI does not have a video codec for .wmv files. I also notice that .wmv is not among the types of movie files offered when I'm attempting to insert a movie file into PPT. Any ideas on how to rectify the problem and return to the "good ol' days" of playing .wmv clips from Powerpoint?

 

[glenna]

Hi Neal,

I had the same problem. Reinstall WMP and accept the
default for file association. Right now Quicktime wants
to play everything for you and the files are associated
with QuickTime.

So the moral; don't accept QT's file associations except
MOV and VRML files.

HTH,
Glenna

-----Original Message-----
I've been inserting .wmv files into powerpoint for a

couple of years with great success and positive results.
Occasionally, I get someone who says that the presentation
runs fine but the video file(.wmv) will not play. I've
read your multimedia tutorial recently and was enlightened
by it, finding out that Windows Media Player has nothing
to do with playing video clips in PPT, instead, it's the
MCI. I recently had my computer re-imaged by our IT
people and have come to find that I am no longer able to
insert and play .wmv's from ppt (they play fine in windows
media player). Since the re-imaging/re-installation I
know that I have installed/upgraded to windows media
player 9 and Quicktime 6, I suspect that QT 6 is the
culprit in screwing up my MCI. I checked my registries
(MCI extensions and MCI132) against what the tutorial had
listed and deleted the quicktime extensions to match the
tutorial's list, still I can't play .wmv's from the MCI.
The prompt I get from powerpoint when the movie doesn't
play is "Powerpoint could not insert a movie from the
selected file. The file is either non-standard or
Quicktime has not been installed corectly". I'm guessing
that my MCI does not have a video codec for .wmv files. I
also notice that .wmv is not among the types of movie
files offered when I'm attempting to insert a movie file
into PPT. Any ideas on how to rectify the problem and
return to the "good ol' days" of playing .wmv clips from
Powerpoint?

 

[Neal]

I thought I replied to this earlier today, but it must have gotten lost. Anyway, I tried re-installing Windows Media Player and still have the same problem; I can play .wmv files in Windows Media Player but not in Powerpoint (playback through the MCI). When I try to play a .wmv file directly from the MCI, I get this message "A problem occurred in initializing MCI". Is it time to re-install Windows or is there anything else to try?

----- glenna wrote: -----

Hi Neal,

I had the same problem. Reinstall WMP and accept the
default for file association. Right now Quicktime wants
to play everything for you and the files are associated
with QuickTime.

So the moral; don't accept QT's file associations except
MOV and VRML files.

HTH,
Glenna

-----Original Message-----
I've been inserting .wmv files into powerpoint for a

couple of years with great success and positive results.
Occasionally, I get someone who says that the presentation
runs fine but the video file(.wmv) will not play. I've
read your multimedia tutorial recently and was enlightened
by it, finding out that Windows Media Player has nothing
to do with playing video clips in PPT, instead, it's the
MCI. I recently had my computer re-imaged by our IT
people and have come to find that I am no longer able to
insert and play .wmv's from ppt (they play fine in windows
media player). Since the re-imaging/re-installation I
know that I have installed/upgraded to windows media
player 9 and Quicktime 6, I suspect that QT 6 is the
culprit in screwing up my MCI. I checked my registries
(MCI extensions and MCI132) against what the tutorial had
listed and deleted the quicktime extensions to match the
tutorial's list, still I can't play .wmv's from the MCI.
The prompt I get from powerpoint when the movie doesn't
play is "Powerpoint could not insert a movie from the
selected file. The file is either non-standard or
Quicktime has not been installed corectly". I'm guessing
that my MCI does not have a video codec for .wmv files. I
also notice that .wmv is not among the types of movie
files offered when I'm attempting to insert a movie file
into PPT. Any ideas on how to rectify the problem and
return to the "good ol' days" of playing .wmv clips from
Powerpoint?

 

[glenna]

I thought I saw somewhere in here that someone said only
PPT 2003 will play WMV 9 files.

John L. is that correct?

Glenna

-----Original Message-----
I thought I replied to this earlier today, but it must

have gotten lost. Anyway, I tried re-installing Windows
Media Player and still have the same problem; I can
play .wmv files in Windows Media Player but not in
Powerpoint (playback through the MCI). When I try to play
a .wmv file directly from the MCI, I get this message "A
problem occurred in initializing MCI". Is it time to re-
install Windows or is there anything else to try?