Windows Media Presenter

Windows Media Presenter for Microsoft PowerPoint 97 is an add-in tool that helps you synchronize a PowerPoint presentation with an ASF stream. This add-in enables PowerPoint to:

Connect with Windows Media Encoder.
Send URL script commands to Windows Media Encoder.
Export presentation slides.
Create and control a PowerPoint presentation that remote users can watch over a network on their own desktop computers.

For a real-world example of how Windows Media Presenter can add data to an ASF stream, suppose a company's chief executive officer (CEO) is giving a presentation to the employees of the company. Because of time constraints and other commitments, many employees cannot attend the presentation. Using Windows Media Presenter and a Microsoft Windows NT server with Windows Media Services allows those employees to use their computers to view live video of the CEO giving his speech, along with synchronized images of his presentation slides. The Windows Media server delivers the live video content, and Windows Media Presenter allows the CEO to synchronize the delivery of the presentation slides to specific points in the live video content. Employees who want to watch the presentation can download the presentation from a Web page and receive the presentation as if they were in the same room with the presenter.

Windows Media Presenter combines with many other components, such as Windows Media Encoder, Windows Media Services, Internet Information Services (IIS), PowerPoint, and Microsoft Windows Media Player, to provide the content to the employees. Windows Media Presenter is designed to supplement an ASF stream and plays a role in adding information to an ASF stream.

Note

If you want to provide Windows Media Presenter content to client computers using Netscape Navigator, the clients must be using Netscape Navigator version 4.05 or later. Otherwise, the content does not play properly with Windows Media Player.