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PP 2007 won't play mpg file

October 09th, 2011 - 03:39 am ET by lemel_man | Report spam
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Although I've used PP 2007 a bit I'm not an expert, and am having
problems with including a short mpg video into a presentation.
The video plays fine in Media Player and VLC, and I get no error message
when including it into a slide, but although it creates a black
rectangle that looks as if it's about to display the video, nothing
happens at all. If I click the rectangle it simply gets selected, but
nothing else - it remains as a black rectangle.
I'm using XP Pro+SP3.
Any ideas please?

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October 15th, 2011 - 06:48 pm ET | Report spam
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Although I've used PP 2007 a bit I'm not an expert, and am having problems
with including a short mpg video into a presentation.
The video plays fine in Media Player and VLC, and I get no error message
when including it into a slide, but although it creates a black rectangle
that looks as if it's about to display the video, nothing happens at all.
If I click the rectangle it simply gets selected, but nothing else - it
remains as a black rectangle.
I'm using XP Pro+SP3.
Any ideas please?



I had this problem and solved it:

a. by shortening the video file path name (PowerPoint can't handle long
file/path names)

b. converting the video to wmv format

Otherwise Google the problem - there are several websites that have helpful
tutorials for using video in PowerPoint.

Good luck,

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