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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / January 2006Why does video forget full screen setting?
Hi, I'm running PowerPoint 2003 and inserting a video by selecting the Windows Media Player plugin from the control toolbox. I change the settings to display the video full screen (the video was encoded at 640 x 480). It plays fine the first time I run it but when it's run a second time it's displayed at its normal size. Checking the properties after right clicking, shows that the settings have reverted back to "false" for full screen display. What is going on? First, why use the Windows Media Player? You are correct about the other part of your post, when you use an activeX control it reverts back to it's default settings (some of them) when the presentation is done. Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=235f5fb4-7f32-4 c0f-bce4-7d60cf5d6187&dg=microsoft.public.powerpoint I'm running a presentation off the network that will be used in a couple locations. Because the path name is long Insert/Movies and Sounds just doesn't work well. I used the activeX controls for Windows Media because they always seem to work. I've never actually run them at full screen because I usually show the video in a window so I never knew about that issue with active x. From the looks of it I will have to place a "video" folder on the C drive of each of the computers involved in this training. Why does Active X do this when it keeps all of my other settings? Thanks for your input. Dan > First, why use the Windows Media Player? You are correct about the other > part of your post, when you use an activeX control it reverts back to it's [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] > > > > http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=235f5fb4-7f32-4 c0f-bce4-7d60cf5d6187&dg=microsoft.public.powerpoint Dan I have another option you might consider. Our add in (PFCMedia) has a feature called "Media From URL". As the name suggests you can play a media file from just about any URL. (Intranet or Internet) One big advantage is that as long as you keep the URL the same you can switch the video files as needed. (Just use the same name.) We have a 14 free (fully functioning) trial version that you may download from http://www.pfcmedia.com Drop me an email once you have it installed and I'll walk you though all the possible settings for playback. (size, etc.) Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com > I'm running a presentation off the network that will be used in a couple > locations. Because the path name is long Insert/Movies and Sounds just [quoted text clipped - 51 lines] >> > >> > http://www.microsoft.com/office/community/en-us/default.mspx?mid=235f5fb4-7f32-4 c0f-bce4-7d60cf5d6187&dg=microsoft.public.powerpoint |
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