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Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac
"Tuomas Rissanen" <Tuomas Riss...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:CE4576EC-AFCE-442F...@microsoft.com...
> Does anyone have a solution to the following problem: .AVI videos (eg.
> MPEG4v3 or WMV9 codecs) do not play (only a black box appears) in
> Powerpoint
> unless the extension is renamed to .WMV or .MPG. The videos are in the
> same
> folder as the presentation on the desktop. I am aware of the "white box"
> problem which is solved by reducing the length of the path. The .AVI
> videos
> show fine in Media Player without any renaming. I have downloaded Windows
> Media Video 9 codecs including MPEG4v3. I have Win Vista Home Pro and MS
> Office 2007 Professional. Is this a bug in Powerpoint 2007? Otherwise
> renaming would not be a problem but I have hundreds of old video files
> whose
> extension is .AVI (MPEG4v3) which I need all the time in Powerpoint
> presentations. I did not have this problem earlier with Win XP Pro and MS
> Office 2003 where things worked well after downloading the MPEG-4v3 codec.
> Thank you in advance!