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Display 2 Powerpoints Simultaneously?

Asked by Eric Bauer

Hello,

So I have been working to fix my Powerpoint problem that everyone seems to deal with. I was attempting to display one PPT file in a timeline and I got it to work by following the these posts:

https://answers.launchpad.net/xibo/+question/245848
https://answers.launchpad.net/xibo/+question/127788

Then I dropped a second timeline in that would display another PPT file simultaneously with the first one. The second PPT file is now popping up the Open/Save/Cancel dialog box while the original PPT in the original timeline continues to work fine.

Anyone know what would cause that?

Eric

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Eric Bauer (eric-bauer) said : 		#1

Problem Update:

I removed the second timeline and added this second PowerPoint to the first timeline so that the two PPT files are no longer playing simultaneously any longer, but rather back-to-back now. However, this problem of the second PPT file throwing up the Open/Save/Cancel dialog box remains. But only for the second PPT, the first one is running fine.

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Alex Harrington (alexharrington) said : 		#2

Could the files have different extensions? Eg ppt vs pptx vs pps etc?

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Eric Bauer (eric-bauer) said : 		#3

They did have different file extensions. The .pptx file was working correctly, but .ppt did not. In the meantime, I have taken your advice and converted all of these Powerpoints to .wmv files. Although this does get me around the powerpoint issue completely, it has created a new problem that I am going to start a new thread on.

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