Video stops during .mpg playback in powerpoint presentation

I do presentations on powerpoint and have inserted .mpg files as slides with
automatic start. However, sometimes the video "blacks out" and audio
continues with video giving no blinking "warning" and audio does not skip. I
have a gig of ram and a sony vaio fs480 (latest video card driver) about a
year old with windows xp sp2. I have done many presentations like this
before and all of a sudden this is happening.

any help is greatly appreciated i have a presentation coming up soon...

thanks a frustrated buddy.

Hello,

If there are no other suggestions, try setting the Performance of your video
to a notch lower in

Start Control Panel Display Settings Advanced Troubleshoot

until the problem disappears. (Note that this may affect video game
performance)

Another way is to lower it in Windows Media Player Tools Options
Performance Video Acceleration (if PowerPoint uses it for playing video)

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"a video headache" a video wrote in
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I do presentations on powerpoint and have inserted .mpg files as slides
with
automatic start. However, sometimes the video "blacks out" and audio
continues with video giving no blinking "warning" and audio does not skip.
I
have a gig of ram and a sony vaio fs480 (latest video card driver) about a
year old with windows xp sp2. I have done many presentations like this
before and all of a sudden this is happening.

any help is greatly appreciated i have a presentation coming up soon...

thanks a frustrated buddy.

Thanks for the suggestion, I've tried this and I've gotten it to work during
a practice run. However, WHY do I need to do it now and not before? Is my
video card going out? Spyware? (i did a full norton virus scan and found
nothing) dying Ram?

Any other ideas?

"SingaporeWebDesign" wrote:

Hello,

If there are no other suggestions, try setting the Performance of your video
to a notch lower in

Start Control Panel Display Settings Advanced Troubleshoot

until the problem disappears. (Note that this may affect video game
performance)

Another way is to lower it in Windows Media Player Tools Options
Performance Video Acceleration (if PowerPoint uses it for playing video)

--
Singapore Web Design
http://www.bootstrike.com/Webdesign/
Singapore Web Hosting
http://www.bootstrike.com/WinXP/faq.html
Windows XP FAQ

"a video headache" a video wrote in
message ...
I do presentations on powerpoint and have inserted .mpg files as slides
with
automatic start. However, sometimes the video "blacks out" and audio
continues with video giving no blinking "warning" and audio does not skip.
I
have a gig of ram and a sony vaio fs480 (latest video card driver) about a
year old with windows xp sp2. I have done many presentations like this
before and all of a sudden this is happening.

any help is greatly appreciated i have a presentation coming up soon...

thanks a frustrated buddy.