{"id":2885,"date":"2011-07-20T23:30:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T22:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2885"},"modified":"2017-03-08T16:26:38","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T16:26:38","slug":"embedding-streaming-video-content-e-g-youtube-and-bbc-iplayer-in-a-powerpoint-presentation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/07\/embedding-streaming-video-content-e-g-youtube-and-bbc-iplayer-in-a-powerpoint-presentation.htm","title":{"rendered":"Embedding streaming video content (e.g. YouTube and BBC iPlayer) in a PowerPoint presentation"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the reasons for the huge gap in posts here is that I’ve lost most of the last week to creating a presentation for an event where I’m speaking next week. The event is for The Society for Computers and Law, and I’m taking a look inside the black box of technology<\/a>. \u00a0I was briefed not to expect much technical knowledge as the audience are junior lawyers but I figure they\u00a0probably\u00a0know quite a lot already as they do work in IT<\/em> law, so it’s been pretty difficult to work out what level to pitch things at. \u00a0In the end, all I can do is take the event organisers’ advice and hope it works out on the night… we’ll see…<\/p>\n

Anyway, I wanted to mix things up a bit and avoid death by PowerPoint. \u00a0My slides are pretty pictorial (at least they are if the brand police don’t make me change them to something bland and corporate…) but I wanted to mix in some video too. PowerPoint is quite happy to embed video from a file but it’s a bit harder if you want to embed video that’s streamed from the web, for example from YouTube.<\/p>\n

There is a way though (without resorting to installing an add-in<\/a>)…<\/p>\n

I found a post from iSpring Software that goes through the process of manually inserting Flash into PowerPoint 2007<\/a> (the version I’m using). There’s more detail in the original post, so I recommend that you read it, but these are the basic steps:<\/p>\n

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  1. Make sure the Developer tab is visible in the ribbon – if not then turn it on in the Popular tab inside the PowerPoint Options.<\/li>\n
  2. On the Developer tab in the ribbon, click the More Controls button (looks like a hammer and screwdriver, crossed over).<\/li>\n
  3. Select a Shockwave Flash object and drag a rectangle on the current slide. Don’t worry about the size.<\/li>\n
  4. Right click on the control and select Properties.<\/li>\n
  5. Go down to the Movie attribute and add the path to the Flash movie. This could be a local file… but it also works with \u00a0YouYube URLs (e.g.\u00a0http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PPnoKb9fTkA?version=3<\/code>).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    A couple of points to note:<\/p>\n