Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 Forum

Hello,

I am able to insert a MPEG video in a slide, but PowerPoint do not play it. Anyone know how to solve it?

Regards,
Carlos

I did:

winetricks ffdshow
winetricks xvid

or on crossover:

WINEPREFIX=~/.cxoffice/Microsoft\ Office\ 2007 winetricks ffdshow
WINEPREFIX=~/.cxoffice/Microsoft\ Office\ 2007 winetricks xvid

Then Powerpoint plays x264 encoded movies:

Something like:
mencoder test.avi -ovc x264 -oac copy -o test_264.avi

That should embed and play well.

Eilif Muller wrote:

I did:

winetricks ffdshow
winetricks xvid

or on crossover:

WINEPREFIX=~/.cxoffice/Microsoft\ Office\ 2007 winetricks ffdshow
WINEPREFIX=~/.cxoffice/Microsoft\ Office\ 2007 winetricks xvid

Then Powerpoint plays x264 encoded movies:

Something like:
mencoder test.avi -ovc x264 -oac copy -o test_264.avi

That should embed and play well.

Hey there!

One of my ongoing projects, is to remove the need for winetricks use
in Crossover ; the simple reason -- "winetricks is for Wine, crossties
are for Crossover" ... plus some winetricks targets don't really (can't)
do what we want in CX, and, a good deal of what is in winetricks is to
be found in Crossover install targets -anyway- ... you've no idea the
number of times folks say "use 'winetricks vcrun6' " when they should
be advising "Install Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Redistributable from in
the 'runtime support components' area of cxinstaller GUI" .... B^)

Just last week, I started on the crossties to replace the winetricks install
targets of 'ffdshow', 'xvid', 'allcodecs' - although I spend most of my time
with CXG, I was aware CXO users might need this stuff as well, so the profiles
work for both ....

"winetricks ffdshow" == http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=8703

"winetricks xvid" == http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=8377 (also installs Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 Redistributable)

Although that provides the codecs (caveat indeo, which I'm doing today), it
won't give you any playback engine ; what I'm finding with games is that they
use parts of windows media player to form that engine. For CXG, I did these
targets to that end ..;

http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=8501
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=8705
http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/?app_id=8719

They will only work in Crossover Games, but I believe the same functionality is
provided by installing one or another of the Windows Media Player targets - the
exception to that might be app_id=8719 -- that can be made to work in Crossover
Office if you download the tie profile, open it a plain text editor, and change
one part at the top of the install profile ;

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<c4p>
<applications>
<app appid="com.codeweavers.c4.8719" timestamp="2011-03-02T00:30:08-06:00">
<cxversion product="cxgames">9.0</cxversion>
<name>Microsoft Media Player Sound Engine 10</name>
<name lang="en">Microsoft Media Player Sound Engine 10</name>
<appprofile>

Change "cxgames" to be "cxoffice" and the tie will work in Crossover Std/Pro.
Please report and success/failure using this method/tie ; it's largely untested
in the scope of CXO but shouldn't break anything ; backup your bottle before
doing anything as per established practices ;)

...I can think of some other things you might try here, so let us know how you
get along musing down this train of thought....

Cheers!