The answer is "yes". As long as your computer can play flash, you can play the FLV online video in PowerPoint. Because video in FLV format is played by calling Adobe's Flash plug-in, an ActiveX control can easily add your favorite video to your PowerPoint slides file.
The specific steps are as follows:
Step one: Insert a "ActiveX control" in a PowerPoint file that can play Flash
1. First make sure that your computer has Adobe (Macromedia) Flash Player installed.
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2. Open the PowerPoint slide page where you want to insert the video, select the View/Toolbars/Control Toolbox from the menu, and open the Control Toolbox Suspension window.
3. Click the "Other Controls" button in the lower-right corner of the tool to open a long list of controls, drag down, and select "Shockwave Flash Object", at which point the mouse will turn into 10 glyphs, as shown in Figure I.
Figure I
4. Back to the page, a single machine and drag the mouse, there will be a fork square, adjust its size, this box determines the video in the slide when the size of the play, such as figure two.
Figure II Step two: Get the link address of the network video
Here are some of the more popular video site video Address acquisition methods:
1.YouTube(the world's largest video-sharing site)
①. Find the YouTube video you need, click the "Menu" button in the lower-right corner of the play box, and then click "url" to display a text box with a URL. Copy all text in the text box and get a link such as "HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/WATCH?V=LFV5QXZ6JHC".
②. You need to make some changes to the link address and replace the "/watch?v=" paragraph with "/v/". Get a valid address like this: HTTP://WWW.YOUTUBE.COM/V/=LFV5QXZ6JHC.
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2. Tudou (tudou.com)
In Tudou to find the desired video, in the video playback page, click on the bottom of the video "How To paste Potato video", in the pop-up prompt box to copy "2." show the player to your personal space or blog "The address of the column."
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3. Youku (youku.com) and My Music net (56.com)
Youku in the Playback page video to the right, I music network in the playback page video below, you can see the text box with the video address, copy it.
Other video site access methods similar to the key is to find the video with the player's original link address, I will not enumerate.