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    Ok I have a client that has an issue that I am stumped on and before I get crazy and wipe the computer I thought I would run it past some of the people here.

    For some reason when he inserts WMV files into a PowerPoint2007 the video does not play. He gets audio but no video. WMV files play fine in Windows Media Player and other applications I am told but not in PowerPoint.

    He ran that Office diagnostics and I even had him try uninstall and reinstall Office 2007 all together. He also tried disabling hardware acceleration and that did not help. Last I spoke with him I asked if he could try and insert another movie file type MPG into a PowerPoint and see if that plays.
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    If I am right, I think that the file that you are trying to play has to be in the same folder as the PowerPoint presentation. I could be wrong, tho...
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    You could take a look at THIS and see if that helps.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Guts3d View Post
    If I am right, I think that the file that you are trying to play has to be in the same folder as the PowerPoint presentation. I could be wrong, tho...
    The file is in the same folder as the PowerPoint. The audio comes through fine, just no video.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zonie View Post
    You could take a look at THIS and see if that helps.
    I can have the client try this but I would rather find out what it is not working like it should. In my testing (since I do not use PowerPoint) all that much you should be able to just insert a video and it will prompt to play automatically or when clicked.
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    Here are (2) more instructionsexplaining how to make it run automatically.

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    After trying to help the customer over the phone I finally got the computer back in my hands and it turned out to be the video card driver for his AMD Radeon 4350 video card.

    I had him uninstall and reinstall it but that didn't help and I had to uninstall it and use a driver sweeper program and then reinstall the latest driver and all seems to work again.
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    OK, that's pretty bizarre. I have to ask, how'd you diagnose it as a video issue? That would have been about the last thing I would have expected.

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    Quote Originally Posted by slgrieb View Post
    OK, that's pretty bizarre. I have to ask, how'd you diagnose it as a video issue? That would have been about the last thing I would have expected.
    Well seeing as the video playback problem only happened in PowerPoint I narrowed it down to PowerPoint/Office settings being the issue or something with the Video and or Codecs. I started with the video card because uninstalling that and cleaning it was the most simple of the three to start with and I got lucky. I also noticed that Microsoft update installed a Video Driver recently that overwrote the ATI Drivers that were installed from the OEM which led me to think to try that. I thought simply uninstalling the software and removing the device manager and telling to remove the software/drivers would be enough. Apparently that was not the case because I had to use a driver sweeper to get rid of all those ATI specific DLLs and such.

    If non of that worked I was going to move onto uninstalling Office and using the Cleanup Utility on that too. I am glad I didn't have to mess with codecs though. That can be a pain to clear up.
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