PPT97: Cannot Play Movies from PowerPoint 98 Files (183918)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows
This article was previously published under Q183918 SYMPTOMS
When you open a PowerPoint 98 Macintosh Edition presentation that contains
movie objects in PowerPoint 97 for Windows, the movie objects will be
missing. For example, you will see the following caption rather than the
bitmap poster frame image:
QuickTime(tm) and a Video decompressor are needed to see this picture.
Double-clicking this caption does not generate any error message or action.
CAUSE
When you insert a movie into a slide, PowerPoint actually creates a link to
the original movie file, and inserts a bitmap poster frame image to
represent the movie object. Because the QuickTime format is not a published
format, PowerPoint for Windows cannot determine the movie file name or
location.
WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, follow these steps:
- Copy the original movie files to the computer where PowerPoint 97 is
installed.
- Open the presentation in PowerPoint 97 and delete all movie objects.
- Reinsert each movie object. You can insert movie objects in any of the
following formats:
- QuickTime.
- MPEG.
- Audio Video Interleave(AVI).
All inserted movies will be linked to your presentation. If you show your
presentation on a different computer, remember to also copy the movie file
when you copy the presentation. If you don't, you will just have a picture
of the poster frame of the movie.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 11/9/2000 |
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| Keywords: | kbconversion kbinterop kbprb KB183918 |
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