PowerPoint & Video

[scwebb]

I have a video clip I need to insert into a PowerPoint 2000 presentation. The file format is *.m1v When I insert it in a slide using the Insert - Movies and Sound - Movie from file I don't get the audio. I have tried Windows Media player and get no audio. I tried hyperlinking the slide to the file to run in Quicktime, and the sound and video worked on the laptop but couldn't get it to work consistently on the laptop & projector. I could get it to work sometimes and then other time not. The entire presentation (movie and all) works fine on my PC. HELP!! This is for a VP of Marketing and he seems to be starting a trend.

Thanks.

 

[TAJSimmons]

scwebb

I always thought that a .m1v clip is an mpeg video clip minus the sound. Just playing the clip in windows media player kinda proves this also.

The problem getting the clip to work on the laptop and the projector is a different problem. Quite a lot of laptops have great difficulty displaying a video clip on both the local laptop screen and the external (projector) screen. The instant fix for this is to toggle the laptop to display on the external screen only (Toggle keys are different for each laptop...but it's normally something like Fn-F3, will toggle between local, external, both).

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
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