I have a short mp4 embedded in a PowerPoint presentation. It's set to loop indefinitely and start when the slide comes up, but the video doesn't show. If I mouse over the progress bar, it shows it repeating in a loop, but the window is black. If I click somewhere on the progress bar, it plays through once, then the bar loops again with the video stuck on the last frame of video. What's wrong and how can I fix it?
3 Answers
Colin Zheng, ex-MS engineer, wrote a pretty good blog article on this matter. You can find it here.
The TL;DR of the article:
Apparently, Powerpoint doesn't use a fully-fledged media player, but a stripped down version of WMP 6 (yeah, you read that right). So any advanced technologies may not be compatible with it. You have three options:
Option 1: Convert videos to .wmv and disable Hardware Acceleration
Option 2: Convert videos to .mpg using QuicktimePro
Option 3: Embed the real Windows Media Player
But that still doesn't explain why cutting the first and last microseconds of you video works though...
I'm not sure WHY this works, but editing the start/stop times to be a couple ms from the ends seems to resolve the issue.
Power point doesn't supprt mp4 video file. You have to convert it to wmv. You can convert it online also, it's free. You can check it on google.
