How to play youtube video in PowerPoint 2003?

Have you ever thought of adding any videos to your PowerPoint presentation
to make it more attractive? Since there are abundant of online flash videos in
many websites, many of which are funny and full of demonstrative element
and so proper to be shown, is it possible to play these flash video in
PowerPoint?

Yes. If the flash video can be played on your computer It is absolutely

possible. And only with an ActiveX Control- Shockwave Flash Object, you can
play youtube video in your presentation with great ease.

Please make sure your computer can play flash video

If not, you need to download an Adobe Flash-player freely from

http://www.adobe.com. If you have downloaded an old one, it is strongly
recommended to download the newest one, uninstall the old one first then
install the new one. This is because if you installed the Adobe Flash-player,
the ActiveX Control Shockwave Flash Object would be installed automatically.

Step 1: Get URL of youtube video

●Find the flash video in youtube, click it to make sure it being played
●Copy the content in the box below” embed” and paste in a notepad, the
value or embed src is the URL of the youtube video. The interfaces are as
follows:
Step 2: Insert the ActiveX Control Shockwave Flash Object to your
PowerPoint

●Find the specific slide on which you want to play the video, and switch to
edit mode
●Click the “View” menu in the menu bar, then choose “Toolbars” in sub-menu,
later “Control Toolbox” to display” Control Toolbar”

●Choose the icon with the tools on “Control Toolbar”, a cascaded list will

appear, scroll down the list until get to Shockwave Flash Object item and click
this item. Then the ActiveX Control is inserted successfully

Step 3: Add the youtube video link to your PowerPoint

●Right click the ActiveX Control Shockwave Flash Object, select” Properties”,
there will pop up a window
●On the “ Alphabetic” tab in properties window, click the ” movie” item, in the
value column (the blank cell next to “Movie” ), input URL of the youtube
video.
Step 4: Fine tune YouTube video in your Powerpoint file

You can set specific options for how the video played in the slideshow, do the
following, and when you have done, close the Properties dialog box

●Since the video file from YouTube has a Start/Pause control built into it, if
the Playing property is set to True,you can set it False to disable the
Start/Pause control
●If you don’t want the video be played repeatedly, in the Loop property,
select False (click the cell to get a down arrow, click the arrow, and select
False)
●In the EmbedMovie property, click True, you can embed this presentation
to another computer. Of course, in order for the YouTube video to run, the
Shockwave Flash Object control still need be registered on any computer that
runs this presentation
●With the slide displayed in normal view, click the Slide Show button in the
lower left of the PowerPoint window (or press F5, or, on the Slide Show
menu, click View Show) to run the YouTube Video.

Then, you can play youtube videos in your powerpoint ! Enjoy it !

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