Re: playing a movie

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thaks for your help, I was reviewing some other questions and found one about
digital camera's. I resaved the clip to mpg to the desktop and then inserted
it in the slide and it worked!!!!! Such a simple solution but it has taken
long enough to figure this one out. thaks for your help,
Sheila

"Austin Myers" wrote:

> When you saved it in Windows Media Player do you have any idea what format
> you used? (What ever you do, keep QuickTime out of this, it will only
> complicate the problem. <g>)
>
> My guesstimate is that you used a codec that is not available to the Windows
> MCI Player (Used internally by PowerPoint). You can examine the codec used
> with a utility like GSpot, locate the correct codec on the internet, and
> then download and install it. The issue then wil be if you plan to move the
> presentation to other machines. If so they may or may not have the codec
> installed so it may or may not work.
>
> There are a couple of alternatives. You can recompress the video into a
> more standard format with a more common codec. Something like Windows Media
> Encoder or Stocick video encoder will do this if you are familiar with
> encoding video.
>
> Another alternative is to download the free trial version of PFCMedia
> (www.pfcmedia.com) and allow it to do the task automatically. Once inserted
> with PFCMedia it will "PlayForCertain" on other Windows machines and
> PowerPoint or PowerPoint viewers.
>
> Austin Myers
> MS PowerPoint MVP Team
>
> PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com
>
>
>
>
>
> "Sheila" <Sheila@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:14C19341-88FF-49D5-B9A5-B164E59D830C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > I have windows XP and the power point 2003. What I did was save a video
> clip
> > from the digital camera with windows Media player and saved it to my desk
> > top. When I insert the file I get the error message. Should I save the
> > video clip in another application such as quick time? Thank you for your
> > help.
> >
> >
> > "Austin Myers" wrote:
> >
> > > Can you tell us what sort of video file it is? (ie mov, avi, wmv. etc.)
> > > What version of PPT and Windows?
> > >
> > > Austin Myers
> > > MS PowerPoint MVP Team
> > >
> > > PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > "Sheila" <Sheila@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > > news:6D3753B8-15EF-4CAE-9565-0160FB3AD142@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > When I download a home movie from my digital camera to power point I
> get a
> > > > message with a box that has red diagonal lines that says vidoe not
> > > available
> > > > cnnot find 'vids;mjpg' decompressor.
> > > > I have triedto insert it in many ways but always the same message. I
> use
> > > > the windows media player
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
>
>
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