How to add a DVD video to a Powerpoint Presentation

[andy jackson]

This may be not exactly in the scope to this forum. But does anyone know how I would put a standard DVD video (of 3 minutes length) as one of the slides on a Power Point presentation that I am doing. It is a lecture at a University.

The Power Point presentation is on my SONY laptop PC which will be connected to a high def projector.

Thank you

Andy

[Cornucopia]

1. Rip the video to your hard drive (using DVDFabHDDecrypter, DVDDecrypter, etc)
2. Convert the VOB(s) to MPG (using Vob2Mpg, or directly in DVDDecrypter)
3. If your PPT installation supports MPEG2, just import the MPEG into the PPT!
4. Otherwise, convert using encoder/converter of choice from VOB/MPEG2 to something your PPT will accept.

By default Windows doesn't automatically come with an MPEG2 decoder (nor AC3), and PPT uses VFW/Dshow as its Multimedia engine, so if WMP can't see it, neither can PPT.

Freeware/Opensource MPEG2 & AC3 decoders are available here if you wanted to get direct usage out of the file (without conversion), but if you haven't done this before, it might be tricky to set up correctly.

If you already have files of a type that PPT does accept, you can convert to that type (WMV for example, using AVISynth+ffmpegsource+WMNicEnc).

If you already have a "DVD player" software installed on the same PC that PPT is installed on, you should already have the MPEG2 & AC3 decoder libraries that will make it able to read the VOB/MPEG2 directly...

Scott

[andy jackson]

Hello, Scott.

I did exactly as you say.

I ripped the video to my hard drive (using DVDDecrypter) WORKS GREAT!

2. I convert the VOB(s) to MPG (using Vob2Mpg)

WORKS GREAT but Two Problems
#1 the MPG video has a very clear video but the audio is pure white noise / distorted sound. Why? Do I need purchase the PRO version to get the audio nice and clean?
#2 Note that it is MPG video not MPG2. Will MPG work on Power Point?


Help!

Thank you
Andy

[Cornucopia]

1. Audio on a DVD can be one of many types: LinearPCM (similar to WAV), DD AC3, Mp2 (aka Mpeg1Layer2, similar to but less efficient than MP3), DTS.

I don't know what kind of type happens to be on your disc. Use MediaInfo to help figure this out. Whatever type it is, you'll have to have a decoder codec/plugin for Directshow to be able to use it in PPT. Otherwise, you'll end up with exactly what you got - White Noise (which makes me guess is ISN'T LPCM), or Silence. Post the text output of MediaInfo if you're still having trouble here...

2. Just because a file ends in MPG does NOT make it MPEG1 (or MPEG4) as opposed to MPEG2. It's just a default file extension, it could be one of a number of extensions: MPG, MPEG, MPEG2, M2P, M2PS, DAT. What matters is how it's structured on the inside, and this I will guarantee you: It's an MPEG2 Program Stream (container) that encapsulates an MPEG1 or MPEG2 (more likely) Video elementary stream and an audio stream(s) of one of those types I just mentioned.

Specifically and explicitly, VOB2MPG does NOT do any conversion of the underlying codecs. It just re-wraps the streams in a very slightly different container (VOB just is a superset of MPEG2 PS, that allows inclusion of Subpicture Graphics private data, Navigation private data and LPCM audio private data).

Will it work in PPT? Just like I said in my 1st post: It will if you have the appropriate decoders installed.

Scott