Hdmi Powerpoint Player
Shawna Erholm
PowerPoint presentations are often presented via projectors, where an individual can copy files to a computer which is connected to the projector in the hall. However, sometimes the projector is replaced with a large monitor or TV. There are many ways by which you can connect your computer or mobile device to a TV for presenting your slides. Here are a few simple methods which can be used to answer the age old question that many PowerPoint newbies ask; i.e. how to play a PowerPoint Slideshow on TV.
This is the easiest way by which you can play a PowerPoint presentation on TV. In the old days the legacy VGA cable was used for this purpose, which is still usable with even the most modern TVs. However, an HDMI cable gives better quality playback and is easier to use.
In this demo we will show you how to connect a laptop with an LED TV using an HDMI cable. However, there are different mobile devices (e.g. Android and iPad tablets) which also support HDMI to TV connectivity.
You can also convert your PowerPoint files to DVD video format, write it on a DVD and play it using a good old DVD player. While this method is more laborious than the aforementioned, it is a pretty functional method. To get the video format right, follow the instructions given below.
There are various TV models and devices which enable connecting to the Internet. The most common example of this can be found in the form of Smart TVs and Smart TV devices. Depending upon your TV model or the supported digital box you might be using, you can play a video slideshow by converting your PowerPoint presentation to a video format supported by your TV.
Last but not least, you can use a video streaming device like Roku 3, Apple TV or Google Chromecast to play a slideshow (e.g. one that has been converted to video format). The below image shows connectivity options for Apple TV. The various connectivity options in a video streaming device such as HDMI, USB and Wi-Fi / Ethernet provide ample scope for streaming various file types to your TV. This makes it possible to run an image, video or PPT/PPTX slideshow of your presentation slides (depending upon the mode of connectivity).
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Useful article with great options for projecting presentations on TVs. It seems to happen more often than not, that you come across a TVs in meeting rooms at e.g. customer sites. One suggestion is to add the Microsoft Wireless Display Adapter as another option under pt. 5 for Wireless video streaming.
Very useful article, i dont ave a laptop at home and was wondering how i could study the power-point presentations using the tv.
thanks for the simplicity of the article too, very easy to apply.
So if I have a load of PowerPoint presentations with images, text and links to short film clips which if I plug into a pc at work they play on the interactive whiteboard perfectly. How do I use the same USB stick to play these in my other place of work on the Apple TV monitor?? Can I?
Your interactive whiteboard has probably a computer built-in, possibly even running some form of Windows, that can natively display PPTs as a regular presentation.
But a standard monitor can only display a video signal it gets through an input, but cannot process any presentation or other files. And most, if not all, smart TVs, cannot handle PPTs, just like they cannot open Word Docs etc. Only media files file images, and videos.
I have a Toshiba 50L5200U, and want to play a PowerPoint as a slideshow from a USB on the back of the TV. Is this possible on this model (if I convert the PPT to another format-if so, which one?), and if not, would a Firestick work, to enable me to transmit the powerpoint/slideshow wirelessly?
I figured it out! If you export the slides from PPT as jpegs and change the dimensions to 19201080 (my laptop automatically made the second part 1081), it will be high-res and full screen when it displays on the TV from your USB. Originally, mine was 1280720 and I had the same zoom issue, but when I tried to change the ratio in design (on power point), it messed up my formatting and some background colors. By changing the size of the jpegs when saving, there was no distortion and I was able to navigate the slides perfectly.
Hello, I need to set up several tv monitors in a building that will loop through powerpoint slides. There is currently no wifi in the building. Can I just export the powerpoints into a movie format (wmv) and play it right from the usb to the monitor?
Remember the AV series that I did while back, I am going to go back on one topic as it keeps recurring on the show floor. And that topic is when clients come to the show floor with their thumb drive with their PowerPoint presentation and they try to plug it into one of the USB ports on the monitor. And it does not work!
What is that you need to do so that your thumb drive with your presentation can play on the monitor. The issue is that the monitor does not have an inbuilt PowerPoint software and nor does the thumb drive. So either you have to have a way of converting the file or getting a source with the PowerPoint software program in it like a laptop. What we are teaching everyone is to give us your PowerPoint presentation and let us convert it to a format that will work with the monitor or what we prefer to use is a media player.
Why a media player? You just put a thumb drive in the media player and then the player will have a more compatible connection like HDMI to a monitor. You can mount the player right on the back of the monitor and with a simple electrical connection and electrical splitter, you are all set to go (click here to see the demo).
In summary, when you see a monitor with USB ports, please do not automatically think that you will be able to play your powerpoint presentation on it via a thumb drive. Invest in a media player, have your exhibit company or your video department covert the files to a format that will work with the media player and then you will have this portable system ready to go at every show no matter what monitor you use.
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I am working on revamping an existing item, the components within are beginning to malfunction regularly and need to be replace. However the parts used in the original setup are extremely expensive and way overpowered for the task.
What I would like to is have one of three images/videos display on a television for a preset time. I can easily interface with a digital media player but would really like to try to make a single unit item instead of one that controls another. Any ideas?
The existing item has three buttons, each button pressed triggers a different short video. Along with this there is a light and a sound that do some stuff. The whole thing is run through a ridiculously overpowered industrial PLC. I want to rebuild this setup from scratch using components that are not so over the top.
The light and the sound is easy, I've got that covered. I could very easily setup my Arduino Uno to send the right signal for each button to the Digital Media Player, however, I was hoping that I could create an "all-in-one" unit. I have read that the Arduino can't do video, but I don't need video I can work with a still image held for a certain amount of time. I am hoping there is some sort of shield that can enable me to do this.
I have also started looking into the Rasberry Pi but am not sure I want to go that route, I really like when I my projects off the Arduino and build them on my own PCB's. When everything is done I have personally touched and dedicated EVERY component which makes troubleshooting and repair much easier.
That what I am trying to figure out. I currently have a digital media player plugged directly into the TV. The digital media player is controlled (along with everything else) by the PLC( the massive, overpowered, ridiculously expensive, overkill-by-definishion PLC). I could easily replace the PLC with an Arduino Uno, however I like things in nice neat little packages and would like to know if there is a way to use the Arduino to read the image files(in whatever format) and send the to the TV screen.
You didn't answer the question .
Either you did not look at the connectors the cable was plugged into or you don't know composite from component from HDMI
from S-video. If you saw the cable, you should have seen the connector . If you saw the connector you should be able to tell me
EXACTLY WHAT KIND OF CABLE IT WAS .
Did you or did you not see the cable ?
Can you or can you not tell me what kind it was ?
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What is there is an HDMI cable but I don't see how that is relevant because I want to replace the existing components and can use what ever I want. I think you are over-complicating the question. Its simple really...
You still haven't defined your video format.
You don't know what NTSC is so you aren't even close to knowing how to define it.
You can't talk about video ANYTHING unless you specify your video signal format. Period.
You need to pick a video signal format first before posting any questions about how do you do this or how do you do that.
If you are assuming that anything you say means NTSC because it is going to use an arduino then fine, but you still need to state that "Everything I am about to say refers to NTSC ...."
Why ? Because we can't read your mind . We don't know if you know that . Maybe you are talking about HDMI on an arduino .
How do we know what you are thinking ?
Is that clear enough ?