Inserting a video Clip into a PP Slideshow

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PRH - 06 Nov 2007 16:41 GMT

I have followed the tutoral (Insert/movies&sound/browes/select), to insert a
9 kb .wmv format video into a pp 2003 presentation with an automatic start,
but when the slideshow reaches that slide I get a blank screen. Nor will it
play using the "play" button on the custom animation tab.

What am I doing wrong?

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Austin Myers - 06 Nov 2007 16:49 GMT

Something is wrong with the file. A wmv requires about 8.5 K just to hold
all the header information. I suspect you have an "empty" video.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
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>I have followed the tutoral (Insert/movies&sound/browes/select), to insert
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PRH - 07 Nov 2007 06:11 GMT

When I open the video straight from my file it plays nicely.

> Something is wrong with the file. A wmv requires about 8.5 K just to hold
> all the header information. I suspect you have an "empty" video.
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> > What am I doing wrong?

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PRH - 07 Nov 2007 06:46 GMT

Austin,

Following your thread to Dinesh in April I tried moving the presentation and
video file from my network drive to my laptop and re-inserted it.

Thanks, it works like a charm!

ps. you were also right about file size.... is 9mb not kb.......

> I have followed the tutoral (Insert/movies&sound/browes/select), to insert a
> 9 kb .wmv format video into a pp 2003 presentation with an automatic start,
> but when the slideshow reaches that slide I get a blank screen. Nor will it
> play using the "play" button on the custom animation tab.
>
> What am I doing wrong?

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