When you try to play a movie in PowerPoint 2003, you receive
the following error message however, the movie plays successfully:
The
file you are attempting to play has an extension that does not match the file
format. Playing the file may result in unexpected
behavior.
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When you try to play a movie in Microsoft
PowerPoint Viewer, the movie does not play.
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This problem may occur if the movie is a QuickTime movie
file (for example, *.mov).
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To work around this problem, convert the movie to a
different format. For example, convert the movie to one of the following
formats:
| • | Advanced Streaming Format (*.asf) |
| • | Audio Video Interleave (*.avi) |
| • | Motion Picture Experts Group (*.mpg; *.mpe;
*.mpeg) |
| • | Windows Media File (*.wmv) |
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