Re: movie goes sraight to end of file immediately - why?

Hi, i'm back!
This is a follow-on question from andy:
I have created a Powerpoint presentation with some slides carrying links to
videos (in the form of .mpg files on the laptop). It all works just fine on
the laptop screen. When I came, this evening in the gathering, to run it thro
a projector, all the stills projected fine. When it got to the movies,
however, the slide frame came up but the movie did not (neither picture nor
sound).

We rushed round and got a second, different projector - no difference! We
tried to run the .mpg liles individually using Windows Media Player - again
fine on laptop screen, but only a black rectangle in the WMP frame, with the
progress button happily moving from left to right on its track, on the
projector.

It would seem that the .mpg file contents is not being sent to the projector
by the laptop!

What am I doing wrong?
andy

"andy" wrote:

> Thanks Austin, I had saved them all to .mpg. Ulead also offer the .wmv format
> to render to and this works fine with PPt, even with a long file address path.
> So thanks everyone for your help. I hope I can get knowledgeable enough
> about something to help others in the future.
>
>
> "Austin Myers" wrote:
>
> > There's the problem Andy. (ULead) What format did you save the video too?
> > Reason I ask is that ULeads codecs do not work with the MCI player. (As a
> > note, this is why PCFMedia is reporting there is corrupted data in the
> > file.) Your best bet is to save the video as an UNCOMPRESSED AVI and let
> > PFCMedia handle it from there. (It will take care of the compression for
> > you.)
> >
> >
> > Austin Myers
> > MS PowerPoint MVP Team
> >
> > PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "andy" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:C50DA833-C910-4F40-B4EB-0D5B7F1A5C9F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > pfcmedia failed to load movies - each time it gave error mess 9990 "this
> > > media file contains corrupt data or Digital Rights Management, processing
> > > halted" even though I made the movies myself (Ulead software) and it works
> > > fine everywhere else.
> > > What next?
> > >
> > > "John Fallon" wrote:
> > >
> > >> Download the PFC add-in trial at http://www.pfcmedia.com
> > >> This may help your situation. Use the add-in to insert the movie rather
> > >> than
> > >> the traditional way.
> > >> --
> > >> Instructional Technology Evangelist for PPT4Teachers.com
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> "andy" wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > I've tried every way offered to insert a movie (.mpg file which runs in
> > >> > Win
> > >> > Media Player OK ) but all I get is a black rectangle which on double
> > >> > click,
> > >> > or run slideshow or 'play movie' flickers only. Where a progress bar
> > >> > shows,
> > >> > it seems to indicate that the movie goes directly from start to finish
> > >> > immediately.
> > >> > How do I correct this?
> >
> >
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