What type of Set Top Box? Dongle or whatever?

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musicmanitou

Hi everyone,
My brother is looking for something that I'm not sure exists. What he is looking for is something to hook up to a TV via HDMI that will play mp4 but can also play power point presentation files. I look at WD Live Tv,and Roku, they both say that they will play virtually any media file, which will take care the mp4, but does anyone know of a device that will show powerpoint presentation short of hooking up a laptop.This is work related and will be show in a public area, so something small that can be discretely hooked up to a TV is needed.
I appreciate any help.

Thanks
 
I have the WD tv live and playing MP4 is no problem, I have no Idea on the power point thing or what format it's in, If you want to upload one I would be more than happy to try it.
 
Okay bro, I will try it tomorrow morning and report back..Night shift is calling me now...:thumbdown:
 
Okay , I tried the file and it won't play the raw pp file. But I did read all you need to do is set pp to output to jpeg files and this will work fine.

c/p

You can tell PowerPoint to output your slideshow as JPG files. Put the JPGs in one folder, then launch the slideshow in the WDTV. Works pretty well for that.

If I do that, is there a way (within WDTV Live Plus) to set the length of time a particular JPG will be displayed for?

You can set up the length of time within the live plus. ( 3 / 5 / 10 / 20 / 30 secs , 1 / 5 minutes) You can also set transition effects if you want them.

end c/p

I hope that helps a little.
 
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