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I am trying to embed a video from youtube directly into my powerpoint presentation. Under the insert tab and video pull down list, I have the option of "video from file" and "video from clipart", but the option of "video from website" is there in the pull down menu but I can't "click" it. The option is "greyed out" please help ty.
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Requirements for online video sites (Youtube, etc.) are as follows:
Flash Player 10+
Windows Media Player 10 or higher
32-bit Office 2010
Does your system meet all of those requirements?
-- Echo [MS PPT MVP] http://www.echosvoice.com
I'm using PowerPoint 2013 and am still having the same issue on a 64bit version where the option to insert a video with embed code doesn't exist.
When Echo posted that (a long time ago!) there was no Adobe flash player available for 64 bit and therefore it couldn't work and the command grayed out. 64 bit Flash has been available for years now. If you have allowed flash player to update it should now be 64 bit compliant.
Nothing to do with the 64 bit codec pack BTW.
What could possibly be the reason for excluding this functionality from the 64 bit version?
For those that need to try to get this to work on Office 64-bit:
If the option to embed a video link from a web site is grayed out, open up Internet Explorer 64-bit and go to http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ to download and install the 64-bit version of Flash Player. Follow the instructions and run the application. Once everything is installed, restart Office PowerPoint 64-bit and you should get the option to embed.
Now, for embed code, you need to make sure that the HTML code includes the EMBED tag and not the IFRAME tag. If it contains the IFRAME tag when you try to grab the code from YouTube, try this for a template:
<EMBED SRC="insert youtube link here" WIDTH="XX" HEIGHT="XX"></EMBED>
INCLUDE the quotation marks.
If it does not play during the slideshow, go to edit the PPT and try to Preview it by right-clicking on the video. If you get a Windows Media Player error, download 64-bit codecs from here:
http://www.free-codecs.com/k-lite\_codec\_pack\_64-bit\_download.htm
Then try again.
If not, I have no clue, because I still can't get my own videos to work. =)