Powerpoint 2007 unable to insert video

[lostandfound]

Hi, installing Office 2007 was a breeze, I then added the override for riched20.dll.

Word works fine AFAICS except for font anti-aliasing, but that's not crucial for now.

Powerpoint can import .wav files but not .mp3 files. More crucially, I'm unable to import .mpg or any other video files.

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-470842.html has maybe a similar problem (year-old thread on ubuntuforums).

Original error message is:-

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fixme:mci:MCI_LoadMciDriver Couldn't load driver for type L"MPEGVIDEO".

My system.ini shows:-

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[mci]
MPEGVideo=mciqtz.drv
MPEGVideo2=mciqtz.drv
avivideo=mciavi32.dll
cdaudio=mcicda.dll
sequencer=mciseq.dll
vcr=mcivisca.drv
; videodisc=mcipionr.drv
waveaudio=mciwave.dll

Based on some random threads I read, I tried copying mciqtz32.dll and mciavi32.dll from my Vista install (don't have a XP install handy ATM). I then changed system.ini to this:-

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[mci]
MPEGVideo=mciqtz32.dll
MPEGVideo2=mciqtz32.dll
avivideo=mciavi32.dll
cdaudio=mcicda.dll
sequencer=mciseq.dll
vcr=mcivisca.drv
; videodisc=mcipionr.drv
waveaudio=mciwave.dll

The new error I get is:-

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fixme:msi:MsiUseFeatureExW mark product L"{90120000-0030-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}" feature L"CAGFiles" as used

As of now, I'm stuck. Anyone have any ideas? Kind of pointless to use Powerpoint without videos, after all, as that's (for me) the major problem with Impress ATM.

[dimesio]

Just off the top of my head, do you have the necessary codecs installed in Wine?

Other than that--file a bug report.

[lostandfound]

Ah, after I posted this I figured out I might try that. Using winetricks to download now. Will update, either way.

UPDATE:

Installed allcodecs, the important message/error is below:-

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fixme:quartz:MPEGSplitter_query_accept MPEG-1 system streams not yet supported.

err:quartz:GetClassMediaFile Media class not found

The first line when I'm importing a .mpg file, the next with .wmv.

[lostandfound]

Ah, with winetricks, when I install WMP10 I'm able to import videos and play them. Tried with wmvs (fully working) and avis (fully working) but mpg/mpeg files are giving problems. They can import but can't play. Similar problems observed when trying to play the same mpg/mpeg files using WMP10 itself. Will be testing that more.

[lostandfound]

So anyway, everything else is working (w.r.t videos in Powerpoint) except for mpg files. This is the related debug message from Wine.

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fixme:quartz:MPEGSplitter_query_accept MPEG-1 system streams not yet supported.

And the error message from Powerpoint:-

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Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The file is either corrupt or the Player does not support the format you are trying to play.%0

Note, this is easily replicated in a fresh Wine install without Office 2007, just install Windows Media Player and try to play an mpeg/mpg file.

Should I file a bug? Am not sure on the procedure for doing so/assigning the bug etc.etc. for Wine.

[austin987]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 11:41 PM, lostandfound
<[email protected]> wrote:

So anyway, everything else is working (w.r.t videos in Powerpoint) except for mpg files. This is the related debug message from Wine.


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fixme:quartz:MPEGSplitter_query_accept MPEG-1 system streams not yet supported.



And the error message from Powerpoint:-


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Windows Media Player cannot play the file. The file is either corrupt or the Player does not support the format you are trying to play.%0



Note, this is easily replicated in a fresh Wine install without Office 2007, just install Windows Media Player and try to play an mpeg/mpg file.

Should I file a bug? Am not sure on the procedure for doing so/assigning the bug etc.etc. for Wine.

Please. We don't know to fix what's broken.

--
-Austin

[lostandfound]

Please. We don't know to fix what's broken.

--
-Austin

Filed a bug. The bug trace was really fat, so had to compress it, but its still larger than 1 MB.

The bug is here[/url]