Inserting a movie into a powerpoint presentation

[Racingsnake]

Help! I have to give a presentation to teachers about teaching languages which includes teaching the teachers how to insert a movie clip into a powerpoint presentation.

Everytime I try it, I get a black box on the slide, not a still from the movie as it says in the online help. If I click on the black box the movie does start, because I can hear it, but I can't see it! I just see the black box.

[SlightlyMadScotland]

Do you have the right media player on your computer to play it.

If you try and play the movie totally indepenantly of powerpoint does it play properly?

[Racingsnake]

Yes it does. I was having a problem with that but asked a question here and was recommended vlc media plarer which works well and also has lovely little icons like stripy traffic cones.

[SlightlyMadScotland]

Maybe that is related....I have guessed I would assume that it would be bog standard windows media player that is required for powerpoint to run it.

Perhaps try googling to see if vlc media can run as a powerpoint plug-in?

[Racingsnake]

Yep, that's obviously the problem. Just googled it and foud other people have the same problem but no-one seems to be able to suggest a solution. Does that mean that I need to try and get RealPlayer to play my movies again? And if so, does anyone know how i'd do that?

[deste]

Download it for free off the Internet.