

QuickTime Player is a free, downloadable application that allows you to view QuickTime multimedia on your computer. QuickTime is available in two forms: QuickTime Player and QuickTime Pro. Your Windows-based computer must have the most recent version of QuickTime software to operate properly. Obtaining the latest version of QuickTime for Windows If you have never used QuickTime on your PC or need to install the lastest version for Windows, we have created this page to help you get started. Need to have the QuickTime Player from Apple on your computer. Many of the Web pages and learning environments that are created at CCNMTL include the use of QuickTime audio and video media. Blows my mind this was set up this way.CCNMTL: Project Portfolio: Using QuickTime in Windows

Still it would be best if Microsoft would just allow WMP to play mp4 files from directly within PP as it does for other video files. You then have to click on the object to get WMP to open it. If you go to the top of the page in the link above there is also a method to insert video as an object which does allow you to insert the movie into powerpoint. I tried using environment variables in the file name but this didn't work for me. Also the URL value must point to the location of the file on the machine you are running powerpoint Drawback is that the file is not embedded into the powerpoint and exists outside of it.

I tried it on another desktop with Office 2010 and it worked.

Unfortunately it doesn't work on the desktop I need it to work on because of the way Office 2010 was installed to meet security restrictions here. Ok I found this workaround that appears to work on some machines.
