If you want to learn about finding codecs for your PC, read Are you having playback issues (in PowerPoint)?Ĭertain older video file formats may not compress or export properly in Office on a Windows RT PC.
PowerPoint may also support additional file types if you install additional codecs on your PC. If you experience slow playback, a lag between audio and video, audio stuttering, or frames being lost, see Tips for improving audio and video playback and compatibility. (Read Download QuickTime for Windows, on the Apple site, for more information.) Additional information mov file if the computer has a QuickTime Player installed. The 32-bit version of PowerPoint 2010 can only play an. *Only PowerPoint 2013 and newer versions.
(Read Download QuickTime for Windows, on the Apple site, for more information.) PowerPoint 2013 and newer versions DO require the QuickTime Player to be installed for playing MP4 video files in one particular situation: when you are using Windows 7 running on a virtual machine (VM).Īdvanced Audio Coding - MPEG-4 Audio file* mov file only if the computer has a QuickTime Player installed. The 32-bit version of PowerPoint 2010 can play an. These names and formats sound complicated, but you can easily convert to and use these formats without having to know anything more than the names. Get the embed code for the video that you want to embed and look for the FlashVars parameter:Īdd that FlashVars code to the end of and you can view the video in a browser (without the rest of the webpage).Newer versions of PowerPoint. I don’t normally rate Yahoo Answers but it did turn up a 2 year-old post from someone called wm1995 that gave me the answer. Note that this works for videos embedded on the BBC website, it’s not for videos downloaded to the iPlayer Desktop client. So that’s YouTube… but what about other Flash content? Well, you may find that you can extract an appropriate URL from the embed code – and that’s what I did for BBC iPlayer content.
I found a post from iSpring Software that goes through the process of manually inserting Flash into PowerPoint 2007 (the version I’m using). There is a way though ( without resorting to installing an add-in)… PowerPoint is quite happy to embed video from a file but it’s a bit harder if you want to embed video that’s streamed from the web, for example from YouTube. My slides are pretty pictorial (at least they are if the brand police don’t make me change them to something bland and corporate…) but I wanted to mix in some video too. In the end, all I can do is take the event organisers’ advice and hope it works out on the night… we’ll see…Īnyway, I wanted to mix things up a bit and avoid death by PowerPoint. I was briefed not to expect much technical knowledge as the audience are junior lawyers but I figure they probably know quite a lot already as they do work in IT law, so it’s been pretty difficult to work out what level to pitch things at. The event is for The Society for Computers and Law, and I’m taking a look inside the black box of technology. One of the reasons for the huge gap in posts here is that I’ve lost most of the last week to creating a presentation for an event where I’m speaking next week.