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Slow down your hardware acceleration.

Display Properties, Settings Tab, Advanced button, Troubleshoot button, hardware acceleration. Slow it down to the left. 2nd setting from the left should do it

Hello every one.

Solution is simple. This is happening due to the absence of MPEG2 codecs which support MS programs.

Easy option is to download and install any free MPEG2 codecs. I tried “stinky’s mpeg-2 codec v1.2.0.79” and it did the job. Now mpg2 movies work smoothly in Powerpoint 2003

download link : (it’s a freeware, simple to install)

http://www.afterdawn.com/software/download_splash.cfm/stinkys_mpeg-2_codec

Enjoy better presentations now

Regarding the MPEG2 playing at 1/2 screen.

I simply changed the Windows Media Player to play in 'Maximized' window instead of 'Normal Window'.

This can be accessed through the properties of the Windows Media Player.

Hope it helps.

Susan2 wrote: Were you able to resolve the full screen mpeg2 problem....everytime I go back to the slides with the embeded mpegs the movie goes back to half size and the settings revert to the default.

Thanks,

Susan

I’m having the exact same problem as Susan2. Does anyone have a fix? I’m using powerpoint 2003. Updating to the PP SP3 doesn’t help.

Hi - I have PP 2002 and am trying to play mpeg2 vid files throughout my presentation. They will play in full from start to finnish if i double click on them while I am NOT actualy viewing the “Silde show” itself. However; When I play the actual slide show and it gets to each video - they play the first 3/4 and then stop. when I look at the properties afterward it has cut a 60sec file down to about 48 sec for example - this happens on every vid...

Can anyone help me with this as it is driving me mad...

I had worked 2weeks to found reason of the issue about play mpeg2 file in PowerPoint.Here is the detail content http://www.easympeg.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=5

The best way to solve the problem is set MPEG-2 Splitter to the highest merit. you can goto http://www.easympeg.com/ to download EasyMPEG MX, I added a new feature into it, which can set MPEG-2 Splitter higher than other demultiplex filter.

Were you able to resolve the full screen mpeg2 problem....everytime I go back to the slides with the embeded mpegs the movie goes back to half size and the settings revert to the default.

Thanks,

Susan

Thanks for all the useful advice. Inserting media player as an object in Powerpoint has solved all my video clip problems except one - although I set the player to full screen, when I come back to the presentation or run it again, the video is back to playing at reduced size. You can reset the size manually during the show but this spoils the slickness of the presentation. Any ideas.

I’ve built an add in to PowerPoint that solves the multiple issues of multimedia in PowerPoint. It also provides for DVD playback, SWF files, Streaming Media, Live Web Cam and a few other nice features.

Download the free trial version from www.pfcmedia.com and see if it meets your needs.

We have run into the same problem with MPEG-2 video appearing black in PowerPoint 2003.

All of the information about decoders is correct but the one thing I found to resolve the issue is to disable DirectDraw.

To do this click on START->RUN and type DXDIAG. This will open the DirectX Diagnostics.

(You may have to click OK again if this is the first time opening this.)

Go to the DISPLAY tab and click the button to disable DirectDraw.

Click Exit.

Assuming you have a good MPEG-2 decoder installed (Elecard is a great decoder) the videos should play with no problem in PwowerPoint.

This should only be done if you are experiencing video playback issues.