Power Points w/sound problems!

[dolphin]

I get many power point presentations from friends with beautiful scenes and sound.

However, most the the ones w/sound that my friends say turn up/on your speakers are silent.

I've checked my audio settings and everything is on, but I can't hear anything.

I can hear the music or voice on YouTube videos fine.

Anyone got any ideas or suggestions about what might be my problem.

TIA for any help.

[Xairbusdriver]

Powerpoint and Macs don't play well together. Most of them embed the sound in the file or use other proprietary methods. If you really want to go to some trouble, you might download OpenOffice or whatever the current MS Office open-source suite is now and see if it works. Or maybe someone here has a real solution.

[kimmer]

Even with OpenOffice, I can never hear the sound.

Now, if you really, really want to hear whatever sound file is embedded, go buy FILE JUICER. It extracts loads of things, and dealing with powerpoint files is one of those. It's $17.95, and be a bit more than you want to pay just to hear sound files, but it does work. You'll wind up with a folder with the jpgs, pngs, etc. A folder with the sound fil(es), and so on. You can then view the pictures through Preview, and play the sound file with iTunes.

Here's my interesting File Juicer story: I began using FJ several years ago. Dropped a powerpoint file on it, then went to look at all the pretty pictures. In the midst of the pics I found a porn shot. Then I found another. Double  I asked Sneakers if he'd seen these files (he had viewed it in another program on his win machine at work). He'd not seen the porn slides. He asked his one friend and he'd not seen it either. Finally we ran it through a powerpoint viewer on a win machine and it didn’t show up. Strangest thing. This is how trojans and viruses can be inserted in stuff. I never ever play powerpoint files. I extract them, view the photos, play the wav file if I'm curious (usually not), and then trash the entire mess. Actually, I normally just trash the darn things and never extract, but I'm odd that way. And no comments from the peanut gallery.

[dolphin]

QUOTE(kimmer @ Oct 1 2012, 09:05 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Even with OpenOffice, I can never hear the sound.

Now, if you really, really want to hear whatever sound file is embedded, go buy FILE JUICER. It extracts loads of things, and dealing with powerpoint files is one of those. It's $17.95, and be a bit more than you want to pay just to hear sound files, but it does work. You'll wind up with a folder with the jpgs, pngs, etc. A folder with the sound fil(es), and so on. You can then view the pictures through Preview, and play the sound file with iTunes.

Here's my interesting File Juicer story: I began using FJ several years ago. Dropped a powerpoint file on it, then went to look at all the pretty pictures. In the midst of the pics I found a porn shot. Then I found another. Double  I asked Sneakers if he'd seen these files (he had viewed it in another program on his win machine at work). He'd not seen the porn slides. He asked his one friend and he'd not seen it either. Finally we ran it through a powerpoint viewer on a win machine and it didn’t show up. Strangest thing. This is how trojans and viruses can be inserted in stuff. I never ever play powerpoint files. I extract them, view the photos, play the wav file if I'm curious (usually not), and then trash the entire mess. Actually, I normally just trash the darn things and never extract, but I'm odd that way. And no comments from the peanut gallery.

Thank you Kimmer and XABD for your responses. I guess its no big deal. I don't think I'll pay for FJ just for this. I was just curious why...and if anyone else had the problem.

[Xairbusdriver]

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I was just curious why...and if anyone else had the problem.

Only Mac and I suspect Linux users. I need to correct my "Powerpoint and Macs don't play well together" comment; MS doesn't really want to play well with anyone, anytime, anywhere. As a matter of fact, I'm not sure the geeks at MS even know what enjoying a computer means!