Video won't play in presenter view!!!

[RBG]

Hello all,

I'm new to the group, first time poster, but not new to worship software. Been doing worship presentations for years. I've used powerpoint & Mediashout over the years. I am now using PPT 2007 and it seems to be working well so far. I set up the laptop with the projector and set the settings to extend my desktop to the second monitor (the projector). I use the presenter view in powerpoint and it works great. I love the way the 2007 let's you click on certain slides during the presentation and change order and such if you need to. My problem is, in presenter view, when I have a video clip to show it will not play on either screen. I get the sound, but no video, just a black screen, or whatever the background color is. If I uncheck the extend to my desktop and just run it straight to the projector, it works fine, but then everyone can see when we switch presentations. Anyone else have this problem and know what if anything I can do?

Thanks a bunch,

Scott

[[Admin] osborn4]

I've heard that ScreenMonkey can help show videos. But you'd have to switch from PPT to Screen Monkey for the video.

[kbob]

sounds like a great reason to look at worship software.

As for why it happens this way, I'm not sure of ppt 07's video capabilities, but some of the programs I have just won't let video play back on a secondary screen, at all. Usually its just dvd's that are affected this way, but depending on the app, it might limit your ability to push video to a second screen.

It could be a driver limitation required by drm, but not as likely.

[wvpv]

It could be that the video is in an unsupported encoding format. I've found that even some WMVs don't play in PPT. If I always encoded them the same, I don't have any problems.

In XP, if it plays in mplay32.exe (Start-> Run->mplay32.exe) in windows, then it should play in PowerPoint.

Here's some more info.

[RBG]

The videos I'm using play in powerpoint fine, and will play in the show fine, just not when using presenter view and playing it on the second monitor.

[RBG]

I would love to use some worship software, but we are a small church and can't afford it at this time. This is something we are trying to make use of and show the church that it is a good and necessary tool. Then maybe the leadership will see that spending $500 on worship software is worth it.

[[Admin] osborn4]

ScreenMonkey is free and can be used in conjunction with OpenSong or EasiSlides, two free pieces of worship software.

[ythpstr007]

Give screenmonkey a try. It works really well for us when we've used it. Sometimes when I can't get something in PPT I move to SM.

[renny]

Have you tried, when you click on 'view', clicking on 'custom animation'?

That worked for me when I had trouble with video in ppt 2003

[Lucas]

What video card do you have?

It could be a video card codec taking over to "help" you

[DonRupert12345]

Originally Posted by RBG

Hello all,

I'm new to the group, first time poster, but not new to worship software. Been doing worship presentations for years. I've used powerpoint & Mediashout over the years. I am now using PPT 2007 and it seems to be working well so far. I set up the laptop with the projector and set the settings to extend my desktop to the second monitor (the projector). I use the presenter view in powerpoint and it works great. I love the way the 2007 let's you click on certain slides during the presentation and change order and such if you need to. My problem is, in presenter view, when I have a video clip to show it will not play on either screen. I get the sound, but no video, just a black screen, or whatever the background color is. If I uncheck the extend to my desktop and just run it straight to the projector, it works fine, but then everyone can see when we switch presentations. Anyone else have this problem and know what if anything I can do?

Thanks a bunch,

Scott

Scott, I too ran into this. The "cause" was my video card/driver. I use an ATI video card and it had to be set up to play the video the way I wanted on the second monitor.

Right click your screen and click poperties. That should bring up the manager for your video card. Look for something called "Theater Mode" and test its different settings.

[ScottW68]

I am having the same problem. According to Microsoft the video acceleration is set too high. Unfortunately, I can't seem to adjust it down It used to work fine until about a month ago. Weird!