Hi,

I have installed the Windows Media Player 9 and PowerPoint 2003 on my
computer and now I want to play a MPEG movie in a PowerPoint
presentation. I insert an Windows Media Player object and configure the
object by selecting the properties via the rightmouse context menu of
the player object.

I have setup all properties as I like to have:
URL: (a MPEG file on the harddisk)
enableContextMenu: True
enabled: True
fullScreen: True
stretchToFit: False
uiMode: none
windowlessVideo: False

When starting the slideshow is runs one time correctly. After the
slideshow has been finished, the settings fullScreen and stretchToFit
are jumped to False spontaniously. Why? Also a save of the presentation
in between does not help.

Last year I had the same kind of problem in PowerPoint 97, but that time
I have solved that problem with some VBA code. I just changed the
fullScreen property to True when the PlayStateChange event occurs with
the new state 3 (Playing). Now I've tried the same trick with PowerPoint
2003. That works fine as long as I do not close the PowerPoint
application. When the applicatoin is restarted with the presentation,
the VBA code will not execute anymore.

Resizing the Media Player object to the size of the slide does also not
help. Media Player does just play the movie in a small box in the middle
of the screen, it is really necessary to change the fullScreen property
to True.

I have tested this behaviour on several computers (all Windows XP Pro
platforms) and they do all behave the same. I have also installed
PowerPoint 2002, but that behaves exactly the same as PowerPoint 2003.

Note: Using PowerPoint 97 isn't an option since I want to use the
improved animation effects of PowerPoint 2002, 2003.

Can somebody tell me what I'm doing wrong? How can I solve one (or both)
of the above described problems?

Regards,
Roy