Re: Can a powerpoint created on a PC with "Insert Video" links be made to run on a MAC?

From: Steve Rindsberg (abuse_at_localhost.com)
Date: 02/02/05 

Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 11:49:20 EST

It doesn't sound as if you're doing anything wrong.

Mac doesn't support AutoRun in the same way Windows does; it won't run a
Windows-created AutoRun CD.

The free PPT viewer for Mac is really a PowerPoint 98 compatible viewer, as I
recall; it doesn't support all the features of newer PowerPoint versions (on
the Mac, we've been through 2001, X and now 2004 since 98). I suspect this may
account for the inability to play back videos as well, though I'm not certain.
It'd run in Classic mode and Classic may not have system level support for the
video type you're using where OS/X (via QuickTime) does.

In article <e14Kh0JCFHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl>, Bill Walter wrote:
> I have little experience with MAC and I have to visit one of the schools to
> try anything.
>
> I have a number of PowerPoint presentations created using Office 2003 that
> contain PowerPoint slides and inserted links to video.If I take the
> presentation and do a Pack for CD I can take the CD to a MAC and if Office
> and PowerPoint are already installed on the MAC I can click on the
> PowerPoint presentation and get it to play and the video will play also.
>
> On the PC the presentation automatically starts a menu and used the
> PowerPoint Player if the target machine does not already have a copy of
> PowerPoint installed.
>
> On the MAC it does not autostart and even if I install the MAC PowerPoint
> player
> the video content will not play. If the full PowerPoint is installed is
> still does not auto-start but the video content does play.
>
> I tried one MAC that had Microsoft office installed and if I inserted the CD
> and clicked on the PowerPoint presentation the presentation would show and
> when I got to a slide that had a inserted video the video would play when
> the video picture was clicked.
>
> On that same machine I downloaded the Microsoft
> PowerPoint player for MAC. The click was still associated with the full
> PowerPoint so I opened the PowerPoint player and selected the PowerPoint
> presentation and it displayed but when I go to a slide with an inserted
> video it would not play. Does that mean that the PowerPoint viewer cannot
> play some videos that the full PowerPoint for MAC can play or am I still
> doing something wrong?
>
> The videos themselves will play if I click on them on the MAC so it must
> have some program to allow the video to play. I am using AVI files because
> that seemed to be one of the only formats that was shown to be available in
> PowerPoint on both the MAC and PC. I tried MOV and although it played fine
> on the PC outside of PowerPoint it would not start from PowerPoint. I did
> not try it on the MAC because I am doing the presentation creation on the PC
> and I cannot test it on the PC with MOV files. I have not tried MPG yet.
> What specific version and parameters will insure that a MPG will play on
> both a MAC and PC from a PowerPoint slide show?
>
> I am trying to make some educational content for a school district that has
> some schools using MAC and other schools using PC.
>
> 1. Can I modify the CD so that it will autostart on either PC or MAC?
> 2. Can the MAC PowerPoint player play video that the full version of MAC
> PowerPoint will play?
> 3. Are there any books or articles on interchangeability of PowerPoint
> content between MAC and PC?
> 4. On the PC I have a monitor and a TV connected to the video card. When the
> presentation plays the video plays imbedded in the slide on the Monitor, but
> on the TV it switches from showing a copy of the slide to a full screen
> version of the video. Can the MAC be set to go to full screen for the video
> portion?
>
> Bill Walter
>
> I tried one MAC that had Microsoft office installed and if I inserted the CD
> and clicked on the PowerPoint presentation the presentation would show and
> when I got to a slide that had a inserted video the video would play when
> the insert was clicked. On that same machine I downloaded the Microsoft
> PowerPoint player for MAC. The click was still associated with the full
> PowerPoint so I opened the PowerPoint player and selected the PowerPoint
> presentation and it displayed but when I go to a slide with an inserted
> video it would not play. Does that mean that the PowerPoint viewer cannot
> play some videos that the full PowerPoint for MAC can play or am I still
> doing something wrong?
>
> The videos themselves will play if I click on them on the MAC so it must
> have some program to allow the video to play. I am using AVI files because
> that seemed to be one of the only formats that was shown to be available in
> PowerPoint on both the MAC and PC. I tried MOV and although it played fine
> on the PC outside of PowerPoint it would not start from PowerPoint. I did
> not try it on the MAC because I am doing the presentation creation on the PC
> and I cannot test it on the PC with MOV files. I have not tried MPG yet.
> What specific version and parameters will insure that a MPG will play on
> both a MAC and PC from a PowerPoint slide show?
>
> Bill Walter
>

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