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Goofy suggestion, maybe, but try opening Windows Media Player and turning off the hardware acceleration in it.
This is for the version of your file where you're playing the movie using Insert/Movie/From File, not the one where you're using an inserted WMP object (Mike M's option). -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com presenter, PPT Live '04 Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com "lorry" wrote: After trying a few more moview, i note that most of the time the CPU sits more at 40% then the 90 somehting percent i thought ws occurring all the time. The videos are pretty satandard One for example is a 720 x 241 avi pixel uncompressed 1 16 bit movie that i tell ppt to play again and again (each second is one heartbeat....so looping looks like the heart beating) others are mpgs - when i go to properties i dont get the same info as above - rather a title subject aurthor categor box (all unfilled) movie sizes are all less than 1 mb why should going to show mode make such a difference to movie quality? I thought ppt handed everything off to to the mplayer? ie if it plays in one it should play the same in any view. Obviously not. RATS! Any other ideas? Lorry "Sonia" wrote in message ... Thanks for the information. Number 3 tells us that running the movie in in Show mode in PowerPoint is "pegging" the CPU, which explains to me why the play is jerky. My guess is that something about the videos is causing PowerPoint to work overtime decoding them. Where did they come from? Have they been converted from other formats? Do you know the image size, sample size, compression and frame rate? You should be able to right click on them in Windows Explorer, select Properties, and click on the Summary tab. "lorry" wrote in message ... Thanks for your rapid reply Sonia, HArdware acceleration : doesnt matter - as long as its about half way down then the movies play (ie not a black box), but if i go all the way to the left, the video is no better or worse. HAve tried with write combing on and off. I have some screen shots of the task manager that i could send to you...in summary however 1. ppt open no movie playing: system idle 70% ppt - 14% 2.: ppt open in normal view - one movie playing system idle 50% ppt -34% 3. ppt open in slideshow mode - movie playing a: just watching it system idle 1% ppt - 98% b: when snagging it system idle 40% ppt - 43% Sigh Lorry "Sonia" wrote in message ... Given that you've addressed the normal things we would suggest, it sounds like there is competition for resources on your system. However, how far down have you set hardware acceleration? Try lowering it more if possible. Is the presentation being played from your hard drive, or from a CD or other removable media or from a network drive? Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to bring up Task Manager. What other applications are running? What is the CPU Usage %? Click on the Processes tab. Tap twice on the CPU column to sort it by % in descending order. What are the most active processes, other than System Idle? -- Sonia, MS PowerPoint MVP Team Autorun CD software, templates, and tutorials http://www.soniacoleman.com/ "lorry" wrote in message ... PPT 2003, windows x[ Insert a video file - (smallish ~ 1mb). When viewed (by coubleclicking) in normal view it plays normally In the slideshow it is VERY jerky I have my hardware acceleration down as movies were often becoming black boxes latest updates of windows, video card drivers (although happened with older driver too....card is nvidia GeFOrce 4 MX420), computer is pentium 4 with a gig of RAM ie shouldnt be a processor problem Any ideas oh yes, the videos are mpeg and avi in standard codecs and run fne in quicktime and mediaplayer and (mplayer via the run command) |
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Not exactly sure how to do that Echo,
Could you give me some more detailed instructions if you have a moment? What does this all mean though? Why wont the movies play in slideshow mode...why oh why (lament) On a separate note, I'm sure I remember you once writing in a newsgroup to someone who was having an issue transferring ppt presentations from a mac that they should turn off the quicktime compression - if it was you - I cant find out how to do that and have had issues with talks written on a pc transferred to a mac, edited a bit (and relinked - aaaargh). When I go back to my pc with the talk, it tells me I need a different decompressor (but I have quicktime pro on both machines....have read steve rindsbergs articles to try and solve the problem myself but to no avail) Win xp ppt 2003, mac OSX + ppt 2004 Thank you Lorry On 6/25/04 11:53 AM, in article , "Echo S" wrote: Goofy suggestion, maybe, but try opening Windows Media Player and turning off the hardware acceleration in it. This is for the version of your file where you're playing the movie using Insert/Movie/From File, not the one where you're using an inserted WMP object (Mike M's option). |
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Open Windows Media Player.
Tools/Options On the Performance tab, move the video acceleration slider all the way to the left. Someone posted within the past couple of weeks that this helped them be able to play their videos in PPT, even though, of course, the videos are not playing directly through Windows Media Player. -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com presenter, PPT Live '04 Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com "Dembo" wrote: Not exactly sure how to do that Echo, Could you give me some more detailed instructions if you have a moment? What does this all mean though? Why wont the movies play in slideshow mode...why oh why (lament) On a separate note, I'm sure I remember you once writing in a newsgroup to someone who was having an issue transferring ppt presentations from a mac that they should turn off the quicktime compression - if it was you - I cant find out how to do that and have had issues with talks written on a pc transferred to a mac, edited a bit (and relinked - aaaargh). When I go back to my pc with the talk, it tells me I need a different decompressor (but I have quicktime pro on both machines....have read steve rindsbergs articles to try and solve the problem myself but to no avail) Win xp ppt 2003, mac OSX + ppt 2004 Thank you Lorry On 6/25/04 11:53 AM, in article , "Echo S" wrote: Goofy suggestion, maybe, but try opening Windows Media Player and turning off the hardware acceleration in it. This is for the version of your file where you're playing the movie using Insert/Movie/From File, not the one where you're using an inserted WMP object (Mike M's option). |
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"Dembo" wrote:
On a separate note, I'm sure I remember you once writing in a newsgroup to someone who was having an issue transferring ppt presentations from a mac that they should turn off the quicktime compression - if it was you - It probably was I. I cant find out how to do that and have had issues with talks written on a pc transferred to a mac, edited a bit (and relinked - aaaargh). When I go back to my pc with the talk, it tells me I need a different decompressor (but I have quicktime pro on both machines....have read steve rindsbergs articles to try and solve the problem myself but to no avail) PPT on the PC doesn't play well with QuickTime. I'm not Mac-savvy, but IIRC, there's a setting somewhere on the Mac that tells it to use QT Compression on videos and images. (I know that at least at one time you could turn this off for images when saving a PPT presentation. Just can't remember how it was done exactly.) I'll ask the Mac MVPs about it. Win xp ppt 2003, mac OSX + ppt 2004 Thanks for this info. -- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com presenter, PPT Live '04 Oct 10-13, San Diego http://www.powerpointlive.com |
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PPT on the PC doesn't play well with QuickTime. I'm not Mac-savvy, but IIRC, there's a setting somewhere on the Mac that tells it to use QT Compression on videos and images. (I know that at least at one time you could turn this off for images when saving a PPT presentation. Just can't remember how it was done exactly.) I'll ask the Mac MVPs about it. In the save-as dialog, click Options. In the lower part of the dialog box that opens next, there's a Compression check box and quality setting. Pretty sure that's the QuickTime trigger. But what also happens is that other apps may use QT compression; the images get imported into PPT and then won't "play" on Windows PCs. As far as I know, the only way out of that is to delete the images, work out how to get the source app NOT to use QT (if that can be done? I used to have to disable the QT init on older Macs -- kill it to keep it out of the way, in other words). Re-do the images, re-import into PPT ... a lotta work! -- Steve Rindsberg, PPT MVP PPT FAQ: www.pptfaq.com PPTools: www.pptools.com ================================================ Featured Presenter, PowerPoint Live 2004 October 10-13, San Diego, CA www.PowerPointLive.com ================================================ |
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