video problem on Vaio laptop

[jojo6x]

i thought i had worked out every powerpoint video problem ever, but one
of the doctors i work for brought me his new laptop (Sony Vaio) and he
showed me a presentation that has worked on 3 or 4 other computers
flawlessly. His problem was when the videos played they are scrambled
and turn a weird green color. i have never seen this problem before,
and can't figure out what the is wrong.

all the videos are mpeg1. OS is XP pro. powerpoint 2002. i have ran the
same presentation on two other laptops and a couple of desktops with no
issues. we created a new presentation and all the videos do the same
thing. they play fine in windows media player and play fine in the mci
player.

totally stumped

 

[Echo S]

Since they play fine in the MCI Media Player (thanks for checking and
mentioning that!), see

http://www.echosvoice.com/tshoot_video2.htm

I wonder if this will be as simple as changing hardware acceleration and/or
updating video drivers?