Re: video problem on Vaio laptop

Since they play fine in the MCI Media Player (thanks for checking and
mentioning that!), see

http://www.echosvoice.com/tshoot_video2.htm

I wonder if this will be as simple as changing hardware acceleration and/or
updating video drivers?

--
Echo [MS PPT MVP]
http://www.echosvoice.com

<jojo6x@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1117794351.548683.84250@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> i thought i had worked out every powerpoint video problem ever, but one
> of the doctors i work for brought me his new laptop (Sony Vaio) and he
> showed me a presentation that has worked on 3 or 4 other computers
> flawlessly. His problem was when the videos played they are scrambled
> and turn a weird green color. i have never seen this problem before,
> and can't figure out what the is wrong.
>
> all the videos are mpeg1. OS is XP pro. powerpoint 2002. i have ran the
> same presentation on two other laptops and a couple of desktops with no
> issues. we created a new presentation and all the videos do the same
> thing. they play fine in windows media player and play fine in the mci
> player.
>
> totally stumped
>


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