Quick Time and Power Point

I have an MOV file which will work in PowerPoint 2000. When in PowerPoint XP, it will work on one computer I have, but none other.

I am running Windows Media Player 9.00.00.3075.

Any hints?

I know Microsoft says the PPT XP will not run QuickTime files, but I have proof that it will. Now I need to have it work on other systems.

Thanks
cliff

Have had similar problem and been working on it for a while. PPT presentations with video 'hate' being cross platform. AVI and MPEG-1 codecs work best (sure you already know this).

On PC - PPT uses Microsoft Media Player which uses MCI complient devices. Go into the registry (Start/Run - type 'regedit'). Find MCI folder and create a new string named 'mov' then edit the value in it to say 'MPEGVideo) Then PPT will play Quicktime Mov files - provided you didn’t use a troubling codec like H264 which is excellent but won’t work on PC PPT, even with the MOV registry value added. Don’t think I’ve explained this brilliantly but do a google search on some of what I’ve said and I’m sure you’ll get better instructions - that’s how I found this out.

Otherwise - create on PC - then make 2 versions of your presentation - on inserting the videos on MAC, the other doing the same on PC. Then bundle both copies onto a CD ROM etc. for use on either machine.


I have now chosen to use Adobe Acrobat 7.0 to create PPT type files which use H264 codec and are cross platform compatible if the reader has the latest updates to Adobe Reader 7 and Quictime 7.