Real Player HELP!!!!

**Jimmy129** · 7th March 2005

Hi

Hopefully someone can help - I am trying to insert a Real Player video clip into a Powerpoint presentation. I understand that I need to convert the file before I can do this. I have downloaded several free converters, but am still struggling with this..

Can anyone help out a complete berk??!!

Cheers

Jimmy

**danthescan** · 7th March 2005

Nice intro wrong section welcome read the rules and someone may just help out.

**Shambles** · 7th March 2005

Originally Posted by danthescan

Nice intro wrong section welcome read the rules and someone may just help out.

Hey!

Nobody is forced to make an intro! He has posted his question in the right section so what's the problem dude?

**danthescan** · 7th March 2005

I dont have a problem dude i just think its polite to read the rules and maybe introduce yourself before asking for help and i didnt say he had to make an intro i said nice intro and welcome so do you have a problem with that

**Shambles** · 8th March 2005

Yup actually I do. If you used punctuation the way it's meant to be used we might have avoided this conflict. Dude.

Lets analyse this.

Originally Posted by danthescan

Nice intro

Sarcasm

Originally Posted by danthescan

wrong section

Incorrect

Originally Posted by danthescan

read the rules

There's no evidence that he's not read the rules

Originally Posted by danthescan

i just think its polite to read the rules and maybe introduce yourself

Your own thoughts maybe, but not the rules of this forum that he has to introduce himself. Your quote "Nice intro Wrong section" suggests sarcasm and that's not what Jimmy is after. So cool it friend.

**danthescan** · 8th March 2005

Shambles Yup actually I do. If you used punctuation the way it's meant to be used we might have avoided this conflict. Dude.

Who says we have a resident grammer school Teacher on the board.
As far as punctuation is concerned 99% of the board is badly punctuated, but how you choose to interperate it is another matter.

Lets analyse this.

There's no evidence that he's not read the rules

There is also no evidence that i meant read. Its how English is spelled that makes it hard to interperate. lets spell it wrong as an example did i say reed or red.
So does this make it incorrect.
Not as i said it but how you choose to interperate it.

Your own thoughts maybe, but not the rules of this forum that he has to introduce himself.

Well these are my own thoughts and i still think it is a good thing to introduce yourself before asking for help.Rules of the board or not.

"Nice intro Wrong section" suggests sarcasm

Not to me it doesnt

"So cool it friend"

Sounds like antagonism to me Friend.

**mladen** · 8th March 2005

danthescan & shambles, both shut your traps, i think you BOTH have the wrong section for that type of natter. If you have nothing to contribute towards the topic at hand, dont post. We have the karma buttons for good and bad posts

Anyway, back the the original question...
have you tried wildform flix?
http://www.wildform.com/

I needed to do the same thing a little while back and remember this sorting it out for me, i believe I just converted it to quicktime and it was happy. Let me know which bit you get stuck on and I'll try to help.

**Jimmy129** · 8th March 2005

Guys

Blimey sorry, I know that it would have been good etiquette to intro myself first, was just under the cosh to get this thing sorted tbh.

I will post an intro later, in the meantime I will look at the Wildform thingo.

Cheers.

Jimmy

**danthescan** · 8th March 2005

Hi Jimmy welcome, we are not always like this. Sometimes 2 people in a bad mood meet up and this is the result.We are a nice bunch realy so dont let Shambles and I put you off. Ask away and have fun, we will all help as and where we can.As for you Shambles just lets put it down to reading each other wrong and leave it at that.:thumbs

Dan

**marcode** · 8th March 2005

pointless bitching and whinging is always a good way to relieve stress.

**Shambles** · 8th March 2005

Originally Posted by danthescan

As for you Shambles just lets put it down to reading each other wrong and leave it at that.:thumbsDan

:thumbs

**danthescan** · 8th March 2005

Cool man now lets see if Jimmy can be helped its what this Forum is all about.

**marcode** · 8th March 2005

seems to me the only issue is he cant work a converter.

**sthajong** · 8th March 2005

Hey Jimmy129!

maybe a strange question, but to which format are you convering it because powerpoint do not support every extensions. if you already checked it maybe could you explain more about the fault message you get? that way i can help you better

regards S

**Jimmy129** · 8th March 2005

I really appreciate your input - yep I probably just can't work a converter Marcode, no hanging offence I hope??!!

When I originally tried to insert the file into Powerpoint I got this message:

"unable to insert file, verify that file and path name are correct"

Having then downloaded an RM Converter and attempted to convert the file I got this message:

"specified file is not a video file or format is not supported"

So there you go..a simple task probably, but not for this idiot...

Cheers

Jimmy