[Avid-L2] Re: wmv issues

I use ffmpeg for most encoding. When a client needed material to run in Powerpoint, we had a terrible time finding a format that didn't suck. There is even a "Microsoft MPEG4" codec that you can use for wmv files. It looked pretty good on the Totem player (Ubuntu Linux), but I haven't found a version of Windows Media Player that can handle it. I ended up using one of the older codecs, with unhappy results at many of the transitions.

--- In Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Rick <a_pmb_fan@...> wrote:
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> Not sure if DIVX will play inside PPT. Has someone tried it? I created an m4v mpeg4 file and wrote a quick asx file for it. When I open the asx file, the m4v file then plays in Windows Media player, but the same file will not work in PPT. I can import the asx, but once I'm viewing the slide show, nothing plays. If I try to import the m4v file, I get an unsupported file message. For supported formats in PPT, they list all variations of mpeg 1 and 2.
>  Rick Emery
> www.rickemery.com
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> From: David Ross <speckydave@...>
> To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Mon, November 2, 2009 2:11:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] wmv issues
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> Probably, but I've never tried before.
> If your client already has DIVX on their machines and you're happy to use it
> too, then why not? If they don't already have the DIVX decoder installed
> It's not something that I would ever recommend to a client and I'd only use
> it if they specifically asked for it.
> Don't really see it as professional and I'd hate to be responsible for it
> taking over their machine and bugging them with all the update and upgrade
> reminder crap it comes with.
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> D.
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> 2009/11/2 Lou Wirth <loutv@mindspring. com>
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> > How about DVIX?
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> > On Nov 2, 2009, at 10:46 AM, David Ross wrote:
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> > > mpeg1 will work fine (though will no doubt look crap...)
> > > A muxed mpeg2 may also be an option if they have an appropriate
> > > decoder on
> > > the machine running PPT. (I think this should be the case as long as
> > > they
> > > simply have DVD-Video player software installed, though I could be
> > > wrong.)
> > >
> > > D.
> > >
> > > 2009/11/2 Lou Wirth <loutv@mindspring. com <loutv%40mindspring .com>>
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> > > > It weird because I was able to make WMV on my mac using compressor
> > > but
> > > > not that compressor is not working I am not able to do it. Client
> > > > insists that is all that works in PPT. ARe there any other options?
> > > > They say the MPEG4 does not work.
> > > >
> > > > thanks
> > > >
> > > > Lou
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