Kyle Johnson2 said:There’s really not much to go on here—which version of PowerPoint are you using, how exactly are you trying to run it, and so on... On my end, *.avi files play just fine during a presentation. I’m running PowerPoint 2007 with all the regular updates installed.
Here are some instructions for PowerPoint 2003
- Inserting movies and animated GIF files into a presentation
Give the tutorial a read and follow the steps provided.
If you happen to be using a base installation of PowerPoint 2007 without any updates applied, you might want to try this...
1. Before you even attempt to insert the AVI file into the slide, try renaming the extension from AVI to either MPG or WMV.
2. Import the video into your presentation and see if that does the trick.
3. If it still acts up, maybe upload that specific AVI file along with one slide from your presentation so we can try building a simple test deck ourselves.
(And please, don't actually convert the AVI file; just rename the extension itself...)
PowerPoint 2007 isn't exactly getting frequent updates anymore, and I'm dealing with this on an old laptop... it runs into the exact same issue where the video image looks fine at first, but as soon as I hit play, the screen goes black and I'm left with nothing but audio. It works perfectly on my desktop, but I'd really like to get this laptop up to speed. When I tried renaming the extension to mpg or wmv like you suggested, clicking the video results in no sound at all—just a blank white screen.🤷