movie goes black when trying to play

[Janell]

I need to put this movie into power point. It shows the still shot of my
video on the page, but when I try to play it, it turns black and just sits
there. What should I do?

 

[Ute Simon]

I need to put this movie into power point. It shows the still shot of my

video on the page, but when I try to play it, it turns black and just sits
there. What should I do?

Janell,

try to move the presentation and the movie to another folder with a shorter
path. The path length including the file name should not exceed 128
characters.

View this webpage for more information:
Sounds/Movies don't play, images disappear or links break when I move or
email a presentation
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00155.htm

Kind regards,
Ute

 

[Sonia]

What is the source of the file? Is it an AVI or an MPG?

Have you visited http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/multimedia.htm
? The information in section 3 should be checked.
--

Sonia Coleman
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Team
Autorun Software, Templates and Tutorials
http://www.soniacoleman.com

 

[ajkarl]

I was having the same problem using PowerPoint 2003 while inserting .avi
files. The files would play fine in Media Player and also on a machine
running a slightly older PPT version, but would not play on mine. After a
search online, I found a document for an earlier version of PPT that
suggested reducing the hardware acceleration
(http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=/support/powerpoint/ppt2000/mmedia/see-accel.asp).

I reduced the hardware acceleration (Control Panel>Display>Settings
tab>Advanced button>Troubleshoot tab), and now the movies will play fine for
me as long as the hardware acceleration is set to "None" or the two settings
to the right of "None."

The "Use hardware graphics acceleration" checkbox in the "Set up show"
window of PPT is not checked, so I wouldn't have thought that reducing the
accleration would work, but it obviously did.