"Austin Myers" <austinm@grm.net> wrote in message
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> "Telstar" <none@none> wrote in message
> news:eqjrcvSuIHA.5500@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
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>> "Austin Myers" <austinm@grm.net> wrote in message
>> news:%23FF4cfQuIHA.3484@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>> Naveen, if it plays in mplay32 then it SHOULD play in PPT. T
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>> Completely and utterly false.
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> Really? And here I have been working with PPT and video for 15 years or
> so, written multiple add-ins specifically dealing with multi-media in
> PowerPoint, written tutorials and white papers, and all this time I was
> clueless on how the two work together. Thanks for setting me straight, it
> is umm, appreciated. :-)
>
PS
I have literally thousands of mpeg2 files that play in PowerDVD, Media
Player, etc and not one of them will play dropped into PowerPoint 2007. The
error mentioned by the OP turns up. They were captured and authored by
multiple hardware and software programs, including Hauppauge and ADS.