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MS Office Forum / General PowerPoint Questions / August 2006Playing movies
Here's an interesting one that I would love to know how to solve. We are on a PC running Windows XP Professional and Office XP. When any user is logged in , except for an administrator, we have issues with a movie file playing through PowerPoint. When we insert the movie, we get a green striped image that flashes on and off the screen. It then will look as if the movie inserts but it will not play. FYI, the movie is in a MPEG format. We can play it in Windows Media Player with no problem but not if we link it to a PowerPoint presentation. However, if we are logged in as Administrator, the movie inserts and plays with no problem on the same machine using the same PowerPoint. It seems like a security issue but we are not sure how. Anyone have thoughts on what to do? Please let me know. Thanks! Lauren Lauren, First, you might want to look at the tutorial I put together on PowerPoint and using multimedia. http://www.pfcmedia.com/Tutorial.htm As to why the admin can do it and no one else, it's very hard to venture a guess without knowing specifically how the machine is set up, what restrictions are in place, and where everything has been located on the hard drive. Just a guess out of the blue, the admin has access to the needed codec, or his/her desktop is configured differently. Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com > Here's an interesting one that I would love to know how to solve. We are > on a [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Thanks! > Lauren Thanks so much for your response. I will check the codecs installed to see if this is the issue. LaurenM > Lauren, > [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > Thanks! > > Lauren I just checked out the codecs and it looks like they are the same when logged on as Administrator and as another user. I checked in the display settings as well and it looks like everything is the same. This is very puzzling. There doesn't seem to be anything different in the set up. Is there any setting profile related that could cause this? > Lauren, > [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > Thanks! > > Lauren How did you inspect teh codecs installed? If you used Windows to do it you aren't really getting the full details. I use and recommend "mmview" to look at installed codecs and activx controls dealing with media. http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/mmview.html Be forwarned, this app generates LOTS of information. As an example on a fresh install of WinXP if you run this app it will show well over 100 entries, on my test machine for media it shows over 400 entries. (While the windows control panel may only show a dozen or so.) Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com >I just checked out the codecs and it looks like they are the same when >logged [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] >> > Thanks! >> > Lauren Thanks for your time on this. I will check into your recommendation. However, I am still not sure this is it because why would the codecs vary from the Administrator profile and any other profile? Seems weird to me. It's almost seems like a rights issue but, again, I don't know how. Thanks, LaurenM > How did you inspect teh codecs installed? If you used Windows to do it you > aren't really getting the full details. I use and recommend "mmview" to [quoted text clipped - 65 lines] > >> > Thanks! > >> > Lauren > Thanks for your time on this. I will check into your recommendation. > However, > I am still not sure this is it because why would the codecs vary from the > Administrator profile and any other profile? Seems weird to me. It's > almost > seems like a rights issue but, again, I don't know how. Hmmm, lets say the administrator installed a media application that included codecs with it. Other users would be locked out from using them unless the admin specifically granted permission to use them. Again, I know you don't like hearing it but without knowing exactlly how the machine is set up I am taking some pretty wild guesses at this point. You might also want to use a utility called GSpot to determine exactlly which code the file needs. http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ Um, and it goes without saying, you might want to give PFCMedia a try as it's designed to solve these very issues. What the heck, it's a free download so you have nothing to loose. http://www.pfcmedia.com Austin Myers MS PowerPoint MVP Team Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com > Thanks, > LaurenM [quoted text clipped - 79 lines] >> >> > Thanks! >> >> > Lauren Thanks so much. I will give your suggestions a try. I really appreciate it! Lauren > > Thanks for your time on this. I will check into your recommendation. > > However, [quoted text clipped - 109 lines] > >> >> > Thanks! > >> >> > Lauren |
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