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Peter Downes - 25 Apr 2008 13:24 GMT

I have a PowerPoint presentation that was setup and works on a PC with Vista
Business and PowerPoint 2007. When I try and run this on a laptop with
Vista Ultimate and PowerPoint 2007, the PowerPoint application terminates as
it reaches any mpg video slide.

This presentation works on all other machines that it was tested on. I have
reinstall Office 2007 and applied SP1....same thing. I have changed the
default video app from MPlayer to Media Center...same thing.

What could cause a video slide to close PowerPoint 2007?

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Austin Myers - 25 Apr 2008 16:28 GMT

Peter, this tutorial may be of help.
http://www.playsforcertain.com/tutorial.htm

There are two things I would do. First, check to see if there is an updated
video driver for the lap top. Second, download and install the Vista Codec
Pack.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Video/Codec-Packs-Video-Codecs/Advanced-
Vista-Codec-Package.shtml

This may solve the issues for playing it on the lap top, however, if you
move the presentation to yet another machine you may run into the same
issues. I would advise converting the video to a more PowerPoint (MCI)
friendly format.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

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

>I have a PowerPoint presentation that was setup and works on a PC with
>Vista Business and PowerPoint 2007. When I try and run this on a laptop
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> What could cause a video slide to close PowerPoint 2007?

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