Advice on movie file format to use cross platform

Currently we use Office X. Have Office 2004 in house but have hesitated to
deploy due to the shoddy playback of Quicktime files. Ultimately most PPTs
created here will need to be used cross-platform. Does that essentially only
leave the .avi format? I can't guarantee that Quicktime will be installed on
destination computers so .mov is out, right? That leaves mgpeg-4 which I
would like to use, but Windows does not seem to have a default media player
that can handle the format. Or am I wrong? Any direction is greatly
appreciated.

In article <BEAFC9B2.2243%sixlegsup@gmail.com>, William Hambleton wrote:
> Currently we use Office X. Have Office 2004 in house but have hesitated to
> deploy due to the shoddy playback of Quicktime files. Ultimately most PPTs
> created here will need to be used cross-platform. Does that essentially only
> leave the .avi format? I can't guarantee that Quicktime will be installed on
> destination computers so .mov is out, right?

..mov is out, yes.

>That leaves mgpeg-4 which I
> would like to use, but Windows does not seem to have a default media player
> that can handle the format. Or am I wrong? Any direction is greatly
> appreciated.

This should answer most questions re multimedia on PCs
http://www.soniacoleman.com/Tutorials/PowerPoint/multimedia.htm

It might be worth having a look here as well:
http://www.pfcmedia.com/


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