Have you tried visiting toshiba's website to see if there is an "updated
graphics card driver" for the laptop?
Or visiting www.ati.com or whoever makes the "graphics card chip" for an
update.
That may do the trick.
Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp
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"Dave B" <Dave B...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have made several videos on Moviemaker and can play them on media player,
> but when attempting to insert them into PowerPoint 2003 I get a green
> screen
> crash of PPT that requires a cntl-alt-delete to get out of the program.
> The system is a Toshiba Laptop 1.8GH Intel processor, 1gig ram, 100gig
> hard
> dirve, running XPpro and office 2003.
> I have 5 Sony desktops and it works fine on the desktops, but when ported
> to
> the laptop I get the crash problem.
> I am a pastor of a Presbyterian church and we make the WMV files to
> accompany our puppet shows for the children.
Which version of Movie Maker did you use? If you have not done so you
should upgrade (free download) to the newest version.
Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team
PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com
"TAJ Simmons" wrote:
> TAJ, Thanks for your input. I tried the Toshiba site and found nothing, so I called the Tech support line and they said there are no undated drivers for the NVidia graphics card. They suggest it is not a hardware problem since the videos work fine in Window Media file. I tired to imbed the windows media file inside Powerpoint as suggested by an old tech tip from Microsoft and this too crashed Powerpoint. I seem to be between a rock and a hard place here. No one seems to have encountered this problem before, so I am stuck.
If you are at a loss, one last thing to try is to lower the "hardware
acceleration"
see
How to set graphics hardware acceleration back
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00129.htm
Or if you want a "get out of jail free card" see
http://www.pfcmedia.com
Plays for Certain
Cheers
TAJ
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Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team
PowerPoint Video and PowerPoint Sound Solutions www.pfcmedia.com
"Dave B" <Da...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>
>
I am having a similar problem. I have a video that will play in "Windows
media player" but will not play in "Mplay32.exe" I have checked the regestry
and all the values seem fine. ( I compaired them to ones post on this site).
I installed a bunch of codecs and still nothing.
The problem seems to have started when I did the last update for powerpoint.
Bug maybe? I've tried everything I can think of can anyone help?
http://www.pfcmedia.com/Tutorial.htm
Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team
Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com
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How so?