Turn off warning from Action Buttons - PP 2k3

[William Hickman]

I am a beta tester for PowerPoint 2003. I want to use the Slide Show --
Action Buttons setting to place a link to a video (which I made) into a
presentation.

After placing the video button in the presentation, I try to click and open
the video. Every time I get this warning:

"Some files can contain viruses or otherwise be harmful to your computer.
You should be certain that this file is from a trustworthy source."

"Would you like to open this file?"

All of my video files were made by me, so they are all trustworthy. I want
to turn off this warning. Can I do this?

 

[Austin Myers]

Instead of using an action button, try using Insert video from file.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

 

[William Hickman]

The problem with that is this: I can insert a video file using Insert --
Movies and Sounds -- Movie from File without any problem ... but I can't get
it to play. The files will play separately in WMP without any problems. This
is what led me to the Action Buttons option.

Action Buttons will work fine for what I do, if I can turn off that warning
message! BH

 

[William Hickman]

I used the mplayer2 program, which I assume is the MCI
player, and all the
videos work just fine with that player (it looks like the
original, older
media player). Every single video file plays without a
flaw in the older
player.

I'm using MPG video files. And the video files were
playing just fine in
PP2K3 until three weeks ago. Sigh. BH


----- Original Message -----
From: "Austin Myers" <[email protected]>
To: "William Hickman" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: Turn off warning from Action Buttons - PP 2k3

Here is the deal,


PowerPoint does NOT use Windows Media Player. Instead it uses the Windows
MCI media player. (Part of Windows since version 3.1)

If you can't play
a

video in PowerPoint the most likely cause is that you are missing a needed
codec on your machine. (Windows Media Player gets any needed codecs it
needs but the MCI player does NOT.) The solution is to figure out what
codec is needed and install it.

Now the reason you are getting the warning message with

an action button
is

because you are calling an executable program (Windows

Media Player) and
it

is simply warning you that you are starting an unknown

application that
may

 

[Steve Rindsberg, PPTMVP]

The problem with that is this: I can insert a video file using Insert --
Movies and Sounds -- Movie from File without any problem ... but I can't get
it to play. The files will play separately in WMP without any problems. This
is what led me to the Action Buttons option.

Try inserting it as an object instead.

It seems that the new viewer may no longer allow external files to run via
Run Program w/o that warning message; it's a security measure.

 

[Austin Myers]

Then I'd say you have a problem in the video subsystem. Things to check:

Latest video drivers
Latest version of DirectX
Adjust hardware acceleration.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

 

[William Hickman]

Thanks, and I will check out these items! BH

-----Original Message-----
Then I'd say you have a problem in the video subsystem. Things to check:

Latest video drivers
Latest version of DirectX
Adjust hardware acceleration.

Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team




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