Re: Keep looped Flash sound files playing across slide transitions

PowerPoint and perfect timing should never be used in the same sentence. <g>

Can you send (email) me a small sample of the presentation with sound so I
can see what you mean?



Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com


"Steve Block" <SteveBlock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks Austin. As the other activities on the CD-ROM are all entirely in
Flash, I think we've got the Flash Player/ Activex installation angle
covered. However, in light of your warnings about PPT/Flash together,
we're
going to have to go back to using looped wav samples in the presentations.
This brings me back to the issue of smooth looping - hopefully you or
someone
else out there can help on this!

The wav samples (mostly 2-bar drum rhythms) loop correctly, including
across
slide transitions, on both my PC and my laptop and using either internal
or
external soundcards. The only problem now is that in PPT the very first
loop
is uneven - the first repeat of the rhythm sample seems to jump in a
fraction
early. AFTER the first loop, the rhythm runs smoothly. (Incidentally,
there
is only ever one looped sample running at a time, so there should be no
conflict or competing for memory etc.)

Any thoughts about what's causing the "first loop glitch", and how I can
cure it??

"Austin Myers" wrote:

Steve,

You just found one of the many gottchas with using Flash. As others
pointed
out, Flash is not native to PPT so it must use an outside app (or
control)
to play them. The problem you are going to run into is that you have no
idea how other machines are set up. You can NOT simply play the sounds
by
including the player, it must be installed in order to register the
activex
components. It must be the right player. And it can not conflict with
anything (anti-virus) on the machine. To add to it, you can NOT use the
PPT
viewer as no code or activex controls are allowed in the viewer. And
finally, the activex control will NOT run if the user has their security
settings too high in PPT.

So assuming you have a user without the proper Flash control/player they
must install it, grant it permission in the AV software, and then change
their PPT settings accordingly. Simple and easy it's not...


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com




"Steve Block" <Steve Block@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have created a music education activity in PowerPoint that requires a
looped sound to continue across various slide transitions. Whilst I can
do
this with .wav files, the looping is not very secure, so I would like
to
use
Flash sound files. However, having embedded several of these so that
they
run
perfectly on my PC, they will not work properly on my laptop. They
start
fine
when the Flash button is clicked, and loop OK until I move to another
slide,
when they stop. The Flash (.swf) file clearly thinks it is still
running,
as
its state still shows the 'stop sound' text programmed, even after the
presentation has been exited.

This PowerPoint activity/presentation HAS to work on any other computer
in
various schools...............help me please! This is due to be
published
very soon!





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