dullard
Elite Member
Boss needs a Powerpoint presentation with videos. It works perfectly fine on some computers, but not on others. Most of the time when transferring to another computer, the videos just play a black box instead of the video.
After lots of searching, I found advise that says to do this:
1) Make certain the video is in the same folder as the presentation when you insert the video into the presentation (since Powerpoint only links videos and doesn't save them).
2) Make certain that folder has a short path name (since Powerpoint is limited to 128 characters in the link).
3) Make certain the video has a short file name (since Powerpoint is limited to 128 characters in the link).
4) Make certain that you copy the entire folder with the Powerpoint and the videos to the next computer. This is easiest done with the Package for CD function.
But still after doing all of that it won't work in all computers. The best I can do is to set it to play movies automatically then in the presentation go forward/backward repeatedly (about a dozen times), then it suddenly works. Rinse and repeat for each movie. Sure that plays, but it is akward in a presentation to waste a minute on each movie.
The Powerpoint help says to turn down hardware acceleration on the video card to fix the problem. That doesn't seem to help and probably won't be possible given a random computer that IT may have locked down permission to change those settings.
Any suggestions?
The last resort is to just to switch from Powerpoint to a media player to play them then switch back to the presentation.
After lots of searching, I found advise that says to do this:
1) Make certain the video is in the same folder as the presentation when you insert the video into the presentation (since Powerpoint only links videos and doesn't save them).
2) Make certain that folder has a short path name (since Powerpoint is limited to 128 characters in the link).
3) Make certain the video has a short file name (since Powerpoint is limited to 128 characters in the link).
4) Make certain that you copy the entire folder with the Powerpoint and the videos to the next computer. This is easiest done with the Package for CD function.
But still after doing all of that it won't work in all computers. The best I can do is to set it to play movies automatically then in the presentation go forward/backward repeatedly (about a dozen times), then it suddenly works. Rinse and repeat for each movie. Sure that plays, but it is akward in a presentation to waste a minute on each movie.
The Powerpoint help says to turn down hardware acceleration on the video card to fix the problem. That doesn't seem to help and probably won't be possible given a random computer that IT may have locked down permission to change those settings.
Any suggestions?
The last resort is to just to switch from Powerpoint to a media player to play them then switch back to the presentation.
