Movies in MS PowerPoint

[paul56]

This is ever so slightly off-topic but I'm trying to set up a PP presentation to include mainly avi files but also video files (MPEGs) which have been generated in VS.

I find that I can hear the soundtrack OK but the video remains blank when the presentation is run.

I've tried the same using resident GIF clips and they work fine.

I've tried hooking up to my DTV in monitor mode and that gives the same results.

Any ideas please? Thanks

[sjj1805]

This often indicates incompatible hardware acceleration. Try turning down your Hardware Acceleration setting, which is found in Control Panel.

If Office PowerPoint 2007 won't play your movie file either in Office PowerPoint 2007 or in Windows Media Player, try creating a hyperlink or action button (action button: A ready-made button that you can insert into your presentation and define hyperlinks for.) on your slide and linking to a program that can play the movie file.

Your movie file is listed as being compatible with PowerPoint, but your movie still doesn't play correctly. (See a list of PowerPoint compatible file formats.) Although your movie file may have the same file extension as one listed as being compatible, it may not play correctly if the correct version of the codec (codec: An abbreviation for compressor/decompressor. Software or hardware used to compress and decompress digital media.) is not installed, or if the file has not been encoded in a format recognized by your version of Microsoft Windows. Encoding is the process of converting data into a stream of ones and zeros. Install the correct codec or re-encode the file.

[paul56]

Many thanks

Adjusting hardware acceleration to None works for avi files, not for mpeg.

I now await with some trepidation what effect (if any)this change has on any other applications.

Both file types work OK in WMP by the way.