Microsoft KB Archive/183918

= PPT97: Cannot Play Movies from PowerPoint 98 Files =

Article ID: 183918

Article Last Modified on 11/9/2000

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft PowerPoint 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q183918



SYMPTOMS
When you open a PowerPoint 98 Macintosh Edition presentation that contains movie objects in PowerPoint 97 for Windows, the movie objects will be missing. For example, you will see the following caption rather than the bitmap poster frame image:

QuickTime(tm) and a Video decompressor are needed to see this picture.

Double-clicking this caption does not generate any error message or action.



CAUSE
When you insert a movie into a slide, PowerPoint actually creates a link to the original movie file, and inserts a bitmap poster frame image to represent the movie object. Because the QuickTime format is not a published format, PowerPoint for Windows cannot determine the movie file name or location.



WORKAROUND
To work around this behavior, follow these steps:
 * 1) Copy the original movie files to the computer where PowerPoint 97 is installed.
 * 2) Open the presentation in PowerPoint 97 and delete all movie objects.
 * 3) Reinsert each movie object. You can insert movie objects in any of the following formats:
 * 4) * QuickTime.
 * 5) * MPEG.
 * 6) * Audio Video Interleave(AVI).

All inserted movies will be linked to your presentation. If you show your presentation on a different computer, remember to also copy the movie file when you copy the presentation. If you don't, you will just have a picture of the poster frame of the movie.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

183919 PPT98: Cannot Play Movies from PowerPoint 97 Files

Additional query words: powerpoint ppt97 8.0 plays playing movies clip motion mpeg mpg avi media player nothing happens error show slide slideshow click action settings animation builds

Keywords: kbinterop kbconversion kbprb KB183918

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