Audio Problem

[baker_hotel]

I am using Power Point 2000. A few people say they are unable to hear
the audio during playback. Most do not have this problem. The ones
who do not get my audio say they do get audio with other PowerPoint
which I assume are made with a later version. (2002 or 2003) I embed
with compressed wav format. I have suggested they update their
readers which they have done. Does anyone have any suggestion why a
few have the audio problem. Thank You

 

[Austin Myers]

I think the issue here is that you are using a compressed wav file. There
really is no such thing. <g> If it's compressed it's not a true wav file.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com

 

[TDunn]

There are many compressed wav formats....Microsoft ADPCM being one.
It's most likely a CODEC issue. What are you using to create the files?
Of course it isn't a "true" WAV file......it's compressed. But it is still
a WAV just like there are different flavors of AVI. You will probably have
to change the encoding or get the troubled users the matching decoder.

................TD

 

[Austin Myers]

Or the simple answer is to use PFCMedia and be done with it. <g> You can
down load a fully functioning two week demo from www.pfcmedia.com.


Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com

 

[baker_hotel]

If it isn't a wav than how to explain why 90% do not have trouble
hearing the audio. Granted the sound quality isn't super but it is very
audible. If you do not compress you would end up with file sizes quite
large to upload and download. If you send the audio as a mp3 file I
think it distracks especially when you have seperate sound effects on
each slide. Every thing I have read about embeding audio to
PowerPoint recommends compressing.. The problem exists with only a few
recipients. Thanks for the suggestion though,

 

[Kathy Jacobs]

One thing to note: When talking about sending wav files, some people call it
compressing when they make the file size smaller by changing the sound
quality. For example, most people will find that a WAV at a lower quality
will work just as well as a one at the extremes of high quality.
(Just my two cents - take or leave as desired)
--
Kathryn Jacobs, Microsoft MVP PowerPoint and OneNote
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