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Ricardo - 26 Sep 2007 15:16 GMT

Hi all,

I have been trying to put some movies (videos) on my PowerPoint Presentation.
First issue that I had was about "hardware acceleration". When I was playing
the movie, it showed to me as a black screen (or box).
I found that disabling "DirectDraw" using the dxdiag tool, I could solve it.

Well, disabling DirectDraw I got it showing to me, BUT now, when I play the
video (and I can see it) a black bar appears on the left or sometimes at the
bottom of my movie.

I searched internet for people that possibly had the same issue with this
black and I found none.

I found that the first issue (the black screen - that is solved disabling
Directdraw) is related to the video adapter driver. I sent an email to Nvidia
that produces the driver. Got any answer yet.

About this black bar, does anyone have suggestion !? Any clue ?

OS: Windows Xp
Program: PowerPoint 2007
Video Adapter: Geforce 7300 GS
Video Adapter Driver: 162.18 (last driver avaliable)
DirectX 9.0c

Cheers.
Ricardo.

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Ricardo - 26 Sep 2007 19:00 GMT

I guess these black bars are appearing when I try to reduce the movie (video)
size.

Does anyone had this problem !?

> Hi all,
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> Cheers.
> Ricardo.

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Austin Myers - 26 Sep 2007 20:15 GMT

Ricardo,

The problems may or may not be video driver related. It could be something
as simple as incompatible codecs. As a suggestion, download the free trial
version of PFCPro and use it to insert your videos and see if the problem is
resolved. (Costs nothing to try it for two weeks and any presentations you
make will continue working after the trial period is over.)

http://www.playsforcertain.com

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

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

> Hi all,
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> Cheers.
> Ricardo.

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