Tuesday, February 3, 2009

How to play FLV file in your Powerpoint


How to play FLV file in your Powerpoint, Please read on the following steps.

1) Get the latest VLC media player on http://www.videolan.org/vlc/  
Download and install it to your pc

2) Download FLV via a popular video host site, like youtube, save it to your pc, and dont forget change the extension file to .flv .etc ;  'yourfile.flv'

3) Go to your Powerpoint, and start searching for  hidden control toolbox.

Click Office button > PowerPoint Options > Popular  > and pls tick  "Show Developer tab in the Ribbon".

4) Click "Developer (where? horizontally aligned with 'home' button), next, you need to click the icon "More Controls" which is displayed as hummer and wrench in the 'Controls' section. 

5) Upon the prompt-up dialog box,pls  select "VideoLAN VLC ActiveX Plugin v1/v2"


6) Once it done, back to your Powerpoint, and click the position for where you want the shape is displayed, use your mouse to resize as you prefer.

7) Go to Properties tab ( by right click the area you drew) , and complete the value of attribute "MRL" with the directory path of the FLV file, , etc:  D:\video\yourfile.flv, close the tab when finished. 

8) You are done! the FLV file is ready to play in your Powerpoint on your pc.

Good luck!

1 comments:

Anonymous | March 4, 2009 at 8:20 AM  

haha, nice trick, anyway, the rick seem to be a little bit more technical. I would love to try one. great post

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