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Embed YouTube Video in PowerPoint Offline

As I promised in my screencast on Embedding (live) YouTube Videos In PowerPoint, here is a video demonstrating how to download a video from YouTube, convert it, and insert it into a PowerPoint slide. I’ll be using my old friend Riva FLV Encoder to convert the downloaded FLV into an MPEG1 video file. This is a format that is compatible with the insert video function in PowerPoint. You cannot directly embed an FLV file in PowerPoint (maybe someday?), at least not easily.

It’s a little less than 10 minutes, and the main video is about an 8MB download. So without further delay, here is the screencast entitled Embed YouTube Video in PowerPoint Offline .

5 Responses to “Embed YouTube Video in PowerPoint Offline”

on 13 Sep 2007 at 8:26 pm # Wondershare

Here is another tip of inserting YouTube video to PowerPoint.
http://www.ppt-to-dvd.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2445

on 02 Oct 2007 at 2:31 pm # Gardner

Thanks, Andy. You’ve once again inspired me to try to do this too, and as serendipity would have it, a recent issue of CPU magazine devoted an entire article to downloading and converting YouTube flv files into other formats.

So I got the Riva encoder and it works exactly as described. A lovely little format-switcher for the toolkit. The CPU article also described an online flv-to-other-formats converter at Media-Convert.com. The article said the results were bigger files but also better-looking video than what Riva produces, so I gave it a try, and they were right. It’s still nice to have a client on the desktop, but the web service Media-Convert provides is pretty sweet–and it’s free, too.

By the way, MS says it supports .avi in PowerPoint, but I get a black screen–sound, but no video. Mpg works fine. Any clues?

on 02 Oct 2007 at 5:25 pm # Andy Rush

Gardner - Another online converter is at zamzar.com. Pretty much the same deal - bigger file but better quality.

As for the .avi that Riva produces, it seems to be an mpeg4 variant that ffmpeg produces (fmp4). It’s still not decoding on my Vista machine, but you may have better luck on an XP machine. I don’t think the quality difference will warrant the extra work. You need to go download a CODEC to make it go.

on 10 Sep 2008 at 2:30 am # Acoolsoft

Good sharing.
Here is another topic about how to embed YouTube video into PowerPoint.
http://www.ppt-to-video.com/knowledges/embed-youtube-powerpoint.html

And we can also upload a PowerPoint to YouTube.
Tutorial:
http://www.ppt-to-video.com/blog/how-to-view-powerpoint-on-youtube.html

on 10 Sep 2008 at 8:59 am # Andy Rush

Please note that Acoolsoft links to software called “Apowersoft YouTube to PowerPoint Converter”,which I have not tested. Our aim was for users to employ a free solution.