 |
 | Home | Contact Us | FAQ | Search & Site Map | Link to Us |
 | Sign In | Join | Other 45 Sites in Network |
Mac Forum / Applications / PowerPoint / May 2005PowerPoint playing wrong video
I've created a pps file to distribute via CD-ROM to users that has two embedded mpeg videos. I inserted these videos using a mac with os 10.3 and office 2004 (with the update). When one of my users runs this program on his computer either from the CD or from his hard drive, the powerpoint presentation plays the wrong video. The video it plays is possibly on the users computer, although he swears it's not. If we reinsert the video in the presentation on his hard drive it works just fine. The pps file plays fine on other macs so I'm not sure what is going on with his computer. I'm not very geeky with mac computers so I'm not sure where to begin looking for a solution to this problem. Any ideas? Thanks, Roxanne > I've created a pps file to distribute via CD-ROM to users that has two > embedded mpeg videos. I inserted these videos using a mac with os 10.3 and > office 2004 (with the update). MPEGs are linked, not embedded. The only way the links will work is if you: - Save the presentation at least once - Put the MPEGs in the same folder as the presentation - Then and only then insert them - Keep them in the same folder as the PPT from then on and they'll generally work When one of my users runs this program on his > computer either from the CD or from his hard drive, the powerpoint > presentation plays the wrong video. The video it plays is possibly on the [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Thanks, > Roxanne ================================================ Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Right, I knew that but I didn't explain it very well. Whoops!. The videos are actually linked not embedded, and they are in the same folder as the presentation. I also instered them just as you've described below. This worked fine on at least 10 other powerbooks that were at the meeting. Only one had this problem and strangely enough, the other workshop CD-ROM I created (which is put together the exact same way) ran fine and played the correct video. Right now I'm suspecting something is wrong with settings on his machine, but I'm not sure. Is it common for Mac ppt to play any video if it has trouble finding the target video? Rox >> I've created a pps file to distribute via CD-ROM to users that has two >> embedded mpeg videos. I inserted these videos using a mac with os 10.3 [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > PPTools: www.pptools.com > ================================================ > Right, I knew that but I didn't explain it very well. Whoops!. No problem, Rox. Videos are compressed using software called a "codec" (short for COmpressor/DECompressor). There are, at last count, 14,234,123 of the .. hold on ... make that 14,234,125 ... of them out there and ... oops, add two more .. Well, you get the idea. Lots of them and they breed faster than mayflies. If one of the videos uses a codec that's not installed on the computer, the video won't play. If this were on a PC I could go on and point you at a couple of useful web sites, but since we're speaking Mac, I can't tell you where to look for installed codecs (or as I suspect might be the case, the codecs are part of Quicktime. Hmm. Maybe check the user's QT version vs yours/the other macs where it all worked ok?) The videos > are actually linked not embedded, and they are in the same folder as the > presentation. I also instered them just as you've described below. This [quoted text clipped - 45 lines] > > PPTools: www.pptools.com > > ================================================ ================================================ Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ |
Reply to this Message |
 Sign In
 Join
 My Latest Posts My Monitored Threads My Blog My Photo Gallery My Profile My Homepage Start New Thread Enable EMail Alerts Rate this Thread
|
©2008 Advenet LLC Privacy Policy - Terms of Use
This website includes both content owned or controlled by Advenet as well as content owned or controlled by third parties.