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Old 04-01-2015, 03:15 AM
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I have a problem with PowerPoint from Office Home & Student running on a Dell optiplex running Windows 7 Professional 32 bit. I cannot get video clips using AVI or WMV to run in PowerPoint, they run correctly on my PC also running Windows 7 Professional 64 bit but Office 2003 Professional.
The Videos run perfectly in Windows Media Player on the Dell PC so I don’t think codec’s are missing. I have also tried loading the videos as objects but this doesn’t work either.



The Dell has recently had Windows 7 repaired and Office Home & Student reinstalled.
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Old 04-01-2015, 03:20 AM
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By the way all updates have been installed
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Old 04-01-2015, 08:30 AM
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How large are the video files themselves? Do you have to down sample the videos?

Sorry as guessing but have seen this before when videos are too large.
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Old 04-01-2015, 01:19 PM
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The files are less than 30MB apart from the WMV which is 88MB all are taken from a You Tube video.
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Old 04-01-2015, 01:30 PM
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Got it. How high is the encoding for the videos?
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Old 04-01-2015, 02:07 PM
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Sorry but I have no idea, how do I check. The video is just over 4 minutes
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In Windows Explorer you can right click on it and select Properties to find out. I hope this helps.
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Here are the details
Length 00:04.31
Frame width 640
Frame Height 480
Data rate 476kbps
Total bitrate 732kbps
Frame rate 25 frames sec
Audio
Bit rate 256kbps
Channels 2 stereo
Audio sample rate
44 kHz

Filer size 23.8 MB

As I said it runs perfectly in PowerPoint 2003 but not on the target PC
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Thanks. It could be the video encoding. Do you have any tools to try to re-encode it down to a smaller size, even just to test it? I don't have any good recommendations on tools, just know that sometimes this can be the issue.
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Old 04-02-2015, 06:48 AM
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I have managed to get the AVI file to run by renaming it to a MPG file without any other changes and the MP4 file also runs OK however the AVI file runs at tremendous speed. I ran dxdiag which showed Directx 11 was installed, I also ran repair on PowerPoint which showed no problems. It's all a bit of a mystery but all's well that ends well. The tip about renaming I found during searches for "AVI won't run in PowerPoint 2007"
Thanks for your help
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Old 04-02-2015, 06:53 AM
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Strange, but happy you found a solution and I will be writing that one down for my own future reference.
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