Powerpoint help please

Woden

Hi

I'm trying to put an avi clip into powerpoint from my camera. The clip plays fine in media player, but when i put it into powerpoint via insert objects, i get the message cannpt play missing vids:mjpg. Similarly if i try insert movie from file nothing happens.

I think i am missing a codec or something anyone know where i can get it and easily install it? This is for my work computer so not sure how much i can mess around with it, also the presentation will be given on someones laptop not this computer so if i fix it here will it still not work on the other machine?

regards

data

Eurorunner

This may not help but..i use a small proggy called gspot to determine what codec an avi needs - it will also show if its installed on the machine. However, seeing as it already plays with media player you must have the codec already??

If it is a codec problem, once gspot gives you the name of the codec, google it and it should come up.

whosurpaddy

thats a very handy feature for the codecs, been looking for an app to do that for a while

Woden

thanks for you help, the program says there are two compatible codecs

AVI draw
MJPEG decompressor

it is also able to render the file

however i am still getting the same error in powerpoint?