PPT2002: Black Flash Before a Movie Runs When You View Presentation in Internet Explorer (285553)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft PowerPoint 2002
This article was previously published under Q285553 SYMPTOMS
When you create a presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint and view the presentation as a Web page in Microsoft Internet Explorer, any slide that contains an inserted movie flashes a black screen for about one second before the movie starts to play.
If you click to clear the Play animations check box on the Advanced tab in the Internet Options dialog box in Internet Explorer (click Internet Options on the Tools menu), the slide with the inserted movie still flashes black before the slide appears, but now for only about a half-second.
CAUSE
This behavior occurs because Internet Explorer loads the entire movie into a cache before it starts to play the movie. The screen turns black momentarily while the movie is loaded into the cache.
Even if Internet Explorer does not play the movie, it still loads the movie into the cache.
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
For more information on other differences between a PowerPoint presentation and a presentation viewed as a web page, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 285590 Presentations Appear Differently When Viewed in Internet Explorer
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 3/29/2001 |
|---|
| Keywords: | kbbug KB285553 |
|---|
|