What the detail kinds of movie does PPT support well? "an" <bzmcayk[ at ]163.com> 12/29/2008 2:01:22 AM Hello£¡ I know that PPT supports a lot of movie file formats,but don't know whatkind of movie ppt supports well. AVI for example,it was supported,but most of them need decoder while it is played.Who could please help me? Thanks ahead! ------------------------- an

Re: What the detail kinds of movie does PPT support well? "Bill Dilworth" <vestprog2[ at ]NOSPAMyahoo.com> 12/29/2008 6:37:48 AM Hi an, Yours is a common misconception. PowerPoint does not directly support ANY movie format. Whenever PowerPoint comes across any movie file link (they are very rarely ever embedded), PowerPoint simply hands the movie file off to the operating system. In PowerPoint, it is the Operating system that plays the movies. This is true for all existing versions of PowerPoint. So, you want to find a movie format that is available on most or all of the machines. Likewise, whatever format you decide on will need to use a common codec that is also likely to be on all the machines. Bill "an" <bzmcayk[ at ]163.com> wrote in message news:%23I5fdlVaJHA.4068[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > Hello£¡ > I know that PPT supports a lot of movie file formats,but don't know > whatkind of movie ppt supports well. AVI for example,it was supported,but > most of them need decoder while it is played.Who could please help me? > Thanks ahead! > ------------------------- > an > >

Re: What the detail kinds of movie does PPT support well? "an" <bzmcayk[ at ]163.com> 12/31/2008 1:07:10 AM Thanks,Bill. Maybe it is misunderstood. What I say is using,not a link,but Insert/ Movies and Sounds/Movie from File to insert a movie. There are about four categories of file.Someone else said that Windows Media files (.wmv) and MPEG files (.mpeg, .mpg) are good options.I have tried it. It looks like that .mpg(mpeg1) files works well,but not sure. -------------------------- An

Re: What the detail kinds of movie does PPT support well? "Bill Dilworth" <vestprog2[ at ]NOSPAMyahoo.com> 12/31/2008 9:09:30 PM Insert => Movies and Sounds => Movies from Files creates a link to the file. Yes it is the wrong wording, but it is how MS did it. Movies are not part of the presentation, just a link to them. Therefore, it is dependent on the computers that will be receiving the presentation and movie files. Yes, since most of the computers will have Windows OS, MPEG or WMV are OK formats. If you have a lot of Apple folks, you may want to consider MOV format. In any case, keep it a simple format and try not to customize it. This will increase the odds that it will play on the receiving computer. Bill "an" <bzmcayk[ at ]163.com> wrote in message news:%23CQgiQuaJHA.2640[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > Thanks,Bill. Maybe it is misunderstood. What I say is using,not a link,but > Insert/ Movies and Sounds/Movie from File to insert a movie. There are > about four categories of file.Someone else said that Windows Media files > (.wmv) and MPEG files (.mpeg, .mpg) are good options.I have tried it. It > looks like that .mpg(mpeg1) files works well,but not sure. > -------------------------- > An >