no automatic sound on WEB

[connie]

I am using powerpoint 2000 and have inserted sound
(.wav ) files. It askes the question "do you want the
sound to play automatically". I answer the
question "Yes". When I play the slide show on my
computer, the sound plays automatically BUT when I save
the slide show as a web page and play it on my web site
the sound does not play automatically. I have to
manually click the sound button. How can I resolve this
problem? I tried upgrading to Powerpoint 2002 but the
slide show doesn't play at all now. It just hangs (on
the web).

 

[Gus Collot]

Hi, Connie...

Okey, we can assume that your audio is set up all right if it works fine on
your PC. However, make sure that in Custom Animation > Play settings you've
got it configured so that the show continues when reproduced ( Nº of
slides=1, in web pages each audio file=one HTML file )

But the net's something else. First question I've got is how big is your
file, remember it must download completely, until then it won't start.

Then there's the issue of coding. PPoint, you see, was not precisely made
for web design, this is just an added convenience. So sometimes you must fix
the source code the HTML way. Please tell us if the sound will reproduce
just on one slide or will keep reproducing through several slides, so as to
brief you on the procedure.

Regards,

Gus Collot

 

[connie harper]

Thank you for your response.

I have inserted a different .wav file on each slide. It's
basically a narration of the slide presentation. They
vary in size from 50 KB to 500 KB. The first .wav file
is 320KB. I am using a T1 line when I view it. When I
view it on the web it advances through the slides
correctly, just doesn't play the sound unless you click
the "sound" icon on the slide even though it plays
automatically the PC. I didn't understand how you wanted
me to configure custom automation. I don't have any
options worded like the ones you referred to.

Is it better to use powerpoint 2000 or 2002 for web
presentations? I can't get it to work at all once I
converted it from 2000 to 2002. I was thinking of
putting it back to 2000. What say ye?

 

[Kathryn Jacobs]

Connie,
This is a known limitation with the way that PowerPoint handles sounds when
it is translated to a web page. Check out this presentation that Michael
put together. It should help you understand what is going on and how to have
the sounds play the way you want when you set it up as a web page.
URL is:
www.oldfco.ca/tutorial/pptohtml.html

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Thank you for your response.

I have inserted a different .wav file on each slide. It's
basically a narration of the slide presentation. They
vary in size from 50 KB to 500 KB. The first .wav file
is 320KB. I am using a T1 line when I view it. When I
view it on the web it advances through the slides
correctly, just doesn't play the sound unless you click
the "sound" icon on the slide even though it plays
automatically the PC. I didn't understand how you wanted
me to configure custom automation. I don't have any
options worded like the ones you referred to.

Is it better to use powerpoint 2000 or 2002 for web
presentations? I can't get it to work at all once I
converted it from 2000 to 2002. I was thinking of
putting it back to 2000. What say ye?

 

[Gus Collot]

What I was referring to is going to custom animation > multimedia settings
tab and making sure you had checked " While playing...continue slide show".
Try it afterwards.

Software versions and individual systems seem to go hand in hand. Quite
frankly, I've known quite a few people that have found 2000 more stable and
trustworthy, no offense pretended. The important thing is achieving your
objective. If PP 2000 does it, that's the way !!

Now, a word of advice...even with fast connection, 350 KB is not exactly
light - when you add image + script weight, you can easily count upon a half
of a MB web page weight ; if it works slow on you, just imagine it on a slow
dialup connection. Are these files only narration or some of them music ? If
feasible, replace the present WAV files with lower bitrate, mono versions
( try to get the best sound with the lowest bitrate, you'd have to test
this ) or use synthetized, MIDI music files ( most recommended and most
frequently used ). Also, you could try applying pre-load scripts on some
pages to reduce the heavy pages' loading ( and waiting time ). Of course,
weight optimizing could be applied to images, too, as well as minimizing of
javascript and applets, if you've got them ( although I should assume the
latter won't apply to your case ).

Finally, you may try inserting background screen sound javascript in each
slide's HTML source code. You'd do this by placing between the HTML and HEAD
section of the source code the following script :

<BGSOUND SRC="mywave.wav" LOOP=FALSE>

If you want the sound to loop, replace FALSE with INFINITE.

Best wishes...

Gus Collot
http://collotcorp.logon.as

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Thank you for your response.

I have inserted a different .wav file on each slide. It's
basically a narration of the slide presentation. They
vary in size from 50 KB to 500 KB. The first .wav file
is 320KB. I am using a T1 line when I view it. When I
view it on the web it advances through the slides
correctly, just doesn't play the sound unless you click
the "sound" icon on the slide even though it plays
automatically the PC. I didn't understand how you wanted
me to configure custom automation. I don't have any
options worded like the ones you referred to.

Is it better to use powerpoint 2000 or 2002 for web
presentations? I can't get it to work at all once I
converted it from 2000 to 2002. I was thinking of
putting it back to 2000. What say ye?