Playing .pps file using QT PRO

I'm new with mac. I've received a PowerPoint slideshow file with sound. Try Keynote. Slides fine, but not sound. Using a PowerPoint trial version I was able to find out that there's a wav file embedded in one of the slides. So I saved as QT format file (mov). But when I try to use QTpro to watch it, again, just the slides, but not sound!!!! Any ideas? How can I watch with sound using QTpro?

What do you know about the WAV file format? There are some cases where using an MP3 track in a WAV can fail to be heard.
Might be worth trying VLC too, it can cope with more formats than QuickTime Player can:
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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'avi is simply a container that can contain any number of different video codecs. Most, but not all, can be played on a Mac.
These are the downloads and the settings you need in order to view/hear/play pretty much everything that the net can throw at you: The setup described below has proved repeatedly successful on both PPC and Intel macs, but nothing in life carries a guarantee!
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RealPlayer 11.1 for Mac from:
http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/15540
Flip4Mac WMV Player from http://www.telestream.net/flip4mac-wmv/overview.htm (Windows Media Player for the Mac is no longer supported, even by Microsoft)
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The latest version of Adobe FlashPlayer can be obtained from here:
http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1ProdVersion=ShockwaveFlash
(You can check here: http://www.adobe.com/products/flash/about/ to see which version you should install for your Mac and OS.
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Lastly open Audio Midi Setup (which you will find in the Utilities Folder of your Applications Folder) and click on Audio Devices. Make sure that both Audio Input and Audio Output, under Format, are set to 44100 Hz, and that you have selected 'Built in Audio'.
Important: Now repair permissions and restart.
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On Intel Macs, make sure that you are not running Safari in Rosetta. You can check this, and change it, in the Get Info window.
On PPC Macs, go to the Hard Disk/Library/Internet Plug-Ins folder, and drag the file 'QuickTime Plugin.webplugin' to the desktop. Quit and restart Safari. If things have improved you can trash that file. If they haven't put it back, as the lack of this plug-in can cause QT content in some widgets to cease functioning.
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http://silverlight.net/
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AC

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