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Inserted AVI movies won't play in PowerPoint 2003

Nov 11, 2005 6:10AM PST

My inserted AVI movies won't play in PowerPoint 2003 SP2 version. The movie will play in Windows Media Player and AVI files are associated with Windows Media Player. I don't think I had a problem with this presentation when I played it in PowerPoint XP or 2002 (whatever it was called).

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Re: powerpoint and avi
Nov 11, 2005 6:57AM PST

That's strange. http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-7813-0.html?forumID=29&threadID=123134&messageID=1395849 is a post by someone who couldn't do it in office XP, but not in Office 2000. I'm afraid it wasn't solved in this forum.

2000, XP and 2002 by the way are different products, so your "whatever it was called" is unclear.

All I can suggest at the moment: switch to WMP to play the movie. But I agree it's very unsatisfactory.

Kees

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PowerPoint XP
Nov 11, 2005 7:12AM PST

I found out that I do have the previous version still on my PC: it is PowerPoint XP. To make it more confusing, that version doesn't play avi files embedded either!

I was able to play them on PowerPoint 2002, I believe, but I don't have that version anymore.

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Powerpoint...
Nov 13, 2005 9:08AM PST

Powerpoint 2002 and Powerpoint XP are the same, just called differently by different people at Microsoft.

Regarding the .avi file (embeded ) which cannot be played, was the presentation "played" on the same computer on which it was created - with the avi file on the same computer ?

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AVI movies can be dragged into powerpoint 2003
Dec 8, 2005 11:53PM PST

This is a completely idiotic problem on which I wasted an entire day, but in a moment of inspiration one of my colleagues came up with a solution.

We had exactly the same problem as you; AVI movies that played fine in Windows Media Player could not be made to play if inserted as a movie or as a Windows Media Player object. The problem was not, as far as I could tell, with any unavailable codecs.

Simply open the Powerpoint 2003 presentation and, in a separate window, the folder that contains the movie(s) that you want to load. Drag the movie into the Powerpoint presentation. No guarantees, but it worked for us

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avi playing in power point 2003
Oct 7, 2010 12:45PM PDT

This is a completely idiotic problem on which I wasted two hours and some more grey hair, but in a moment of luck and the strange way windows applications do not work when they should I discovered by luck a solution.
insert the movie from file
on the actual slide in edit mode right click mouse while pointer is on black box
select edit movie object from the menu that should have come up
Move mouse pointer to box - zoom to full screen and click left mouse button so tick shows
This works but it beats me why it does work
press F5 and watch slide show

Hardware Acceleration on Full and it works
Tried Acceleration on None as suggested and got green screen and half video with flicker
but the zoom setting seems to fix problem

dragging the object would play in edit screen when clicked on but would not play in slide view.