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From: John Stone (johns_at_ks.uiuc.edu)
Date: Tue Jul 12 2005 - 19:18:32 CDT

Interesting information Jerry, that's good advice to check the player
codecs as well. Hopefully Brian will get his movies working shortly
one way or the other. By the way, if any of you guys have suggestions
for additional free video encoding packages for Windows/Mac, let me know,
I'd like to see if there's anything else that the movie plugin might
be able to support prior to the next release of VMD.

  John Stone
  vmd_at_ks.uiuc.edu

On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 06:33:49PM -0500, Jerry Ebalunode wrote:
> Hi Brian,
> I had this problem earlier this year. The problem comes from changing the
> default decoder used by window media player (mplay) for decoding mpg
> movies, to a more newer codec which is incompatible with ms office
> powerpoint. This newer offending codec(s) usually come from recently
> installed multimedia programs. In my case this was from adobe premiere and
> sony vegas. In a bid to improve overall performance for multimedia playback
> and likely editing too, these vendors provide their own third party codecs
> for doing a similar job.
> I had to move or rename the offending libraries that provided this codecs, to
> finally fix the problem. I will send you the forum page that provided a
> more detail explanation of the source of the problem and instructions on how
> to fix it. You might be able to stumble across the solution in google
>
> --
> Jerry Ebalunode
> Ph.D. Candidate
> RM 402F Houston Science Center
> Phone: 713-743-8367
> Dept. of Biology and Biochemistry
> University of Houston
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> Houston, TX 77204
>
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> Marcos Topete
>
>
> it has tOn Tuesday 12 July 2005 05:36 pm, you wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Has anyone recently made mpg movies on linux boxes and then inserted them
> > successfully into a powerpoint presentation?
> >
> > Up until last year this wasn't a problem, now powerpoint complains that
> > the file is corrupted or that quicktime isn't install correctly.
> >
> > However, I can play the mpg movie with quicktime outside of office just
> > fine.
> >
> > Ideas??
> >
> > Brian
> >
> >
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