Video in PPT flashes for a moment before playing...

Hello,

I have two videos in a powerpoint (2007) presentation, and when the slide
advances, the first frame of the video shows, then disappears for a second,
and then the video resumes. It does not do this when played outside of
Powerpoint. I've moved a copy of the PPT along with the two WMV files and
shortened the names to minimize the length of the file path. This helped a
bit, but is there anything else i should try? Thanks in advance!

Michelle

Austin
Thu May 08 15:45:21 CDT 2008

michelle

This is "normal". When you insert a video in powerpoint it grabs the first
frame as a image and inserts it as a placeholder. When you start the
playback it may take a second or two to begin playing. If you have not done
so recently I'd suggest defragmenting your hard drive to minimize the delay.



Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCPro, PFCMedia and PFCExpress
www.playsforcertain.com


"michelle" <michelle@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I have two videos in a powerpoint (2007) presentation, and when the slide
> advances, the first frame of the video shows, then disappears for a
> second,
> and then the video resumes. It does not do this when played outside of
> Powerpoint. I've moved a copy of the PPT along with the two WMV files and
> shortened the names to minimize the length of the file path. This helped
> a
> bit, but is there anything else i should try? Thanks in advance!
>
> Michelle