No sound in Powerpoint
Saturday, November 15th, 2008
This took me a whole morning to work this out so I thought I’d share the solution.
If you’re using embedded audio clips in your presentation but on previewing you hear no sound…
- after you’ve done the obvious like checking your system mixer settings (volume faders up, not muted etc.) and you’ve played the file outside of powerpoint (and it works) and you’re using a bog-standard 16bit 44.1kHz wav file (no strange codecs) and you’ve even copied the .ppt and the audio clip to another computer (important to copy both files as the wav will be linked to, not embedded in the presentation) – and confirmed that it works on that machine…
yet still no audio?… Well there just happens to be a 200 character limit to the file path to a sound clip (and I assume video files too). So copy your ppt to a folder like C:/temp/ and delete (then re-insert) your audio clips and all should work fine. Phew!