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Bruce J - 24 Jun 2007 00:18 GMT

I have several large movie files to play in a power point presentation.
Movies play fine as a slide show on my desktop computer, but after transfer
to laptop,they stop playing before completion in slideshow. They play OK in
media player and when viewed as a slide in powerpoint on the laptop. They
are windows media files created in adobe premier. Any suggestions?

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Austin Myers - 24 Jun 2007 15:58 GMT

>I have several large movie files to play in a power point presentation.
> Movies play fine as a slide show on my desktop computer, but after
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> They
> are windows

media files created in adobe premier.

There I believe is the problem. Adobe uses digital markers in their video
and you must have their version of the Windows codec in order for the MCI
player (used in PPT) to play properly. For a further understanding of
codecs and their role in PPT multimedia you might want to read this
tutorial.

http://www.playsforcertain.com/tutorial.htm#Multimedia_in_Microsoft_PowerPoint

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

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Bruce J - 24 Jun 2007 19:09 GMT

Thanks for looking at this. I have adobe premier on the laptop too, and it
is not suggesting any updates/downloads that I should have. I have tried the
adobe website, and there is little information about additional codecs which
might be needed for powerpoint shows.
I have downloaded a set of codecs from the microsoft download centre, but
this had not helped.
I have tried installing your program, pfc media into powerpoint,, but
although it "processed " the movie, the movie still ended too soon.

However, the desktop does have some other codecs loaded which the laptop has
not, so I'll try some of these.

If it was a codec problem, would it not be that the movie would not play at
all?

Thanks for helping

Bruce

> >I have several large movie files to play in a power point presentation.
> > Movies play fine as a slide show on my desktop computer, but after
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> Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
> www.playsforcertain.com

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Bruce J - 24 Jun 2007 20:04 GMT

Some further info.

I ran mplayer2.exe as your web site suggested, and it automatically
downloaded a codec to play one of the files. The files played to the end in
mplayer2, but interestingly froze for a few seconds in 2 places. However,
when played as a slideshow in powerpoint, it again failed to play to the end.

Bruce

> Thanks for looking at this. I have adobe premier on the laptop too, and it
> is not suggesting any updates/downloads that I should have. I have tried the
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> > Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
> > www.playsforcertain.com

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Austin Myers - 25 Jun 2007 15:31 GMT

Bruce,

If the file isn't to large can you email it to me so I can take it apart?
ausitnm@grm.ent

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

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>> > Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
>> > www.playsforcertain.com

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Bruce J - 25 Jun 2007 17:19 GMT

Austin,

The smallest file is 24MB: will this get through to you?

Bruce

> Bruce,
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Austin Myers - 25 Jun 2007 19:20 GMT

> Austin,
>
> The smallest file is 24MB: will this get through to you?

Afraid not. You might want to use something like http://www.yousendit.com/

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com

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