# PPT is not playing

**URL:** https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/ppt-is-not-playing/4022
**Category:** Get Help
**Created:** [November 8, 2015, 6:24pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/ppt-is-not-playing/4022 "2015-11-08T18:24:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![anson](https://community.xibo.org.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@anson](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/anson)
#### Post date: [November 8, 2015, 6:24pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/ppt-is-not-playing/4022/1 "2015-11-08T18:24:51Z")

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In my CMS PPT(Powerpoint) is not playing.Once i enable ppt in dispaly setting it is asking download or open.

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### Author: ![alex](https://community.xibo.org.uk/user_avatar/community.xibo.org.uk/alex/32/5782_2.png) [@alex](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/alex)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2015, 8:14am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/ppt-is-not-playing/4022/2 "2015-11-09T08:14:00Z")

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Please check the FAQ and/or the manual - both of which cover this:

> [@PowerPoint media items show a "Navigation Cancelled" error when running on the Windows Player / PowerPoint brings up an Open Dialog](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/powerpoint-media-items-show-a-navigation-cancelled-error-when-running-on-the-windows-player-powerpoint-brings-up-an-open-dialog/37):
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> In general, we recommend converting all PowerPoint items to videos (from Office 2010 onwards you can simply Save As -\> WMV Video and from Office 2013 onwards you can save directly to MP4 video) which allows playback across all Xibo clients. PowerPoint support is kept in the Windows client at present for legacy content and may be removed in a later release. Sometimes Windows Updates or Office Updates from Microsoft can change the default behaviour when we ask Internet Explorer to render a PowerP…

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### Author: ![anson](https://community.xibo.org.uk/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/3bc359/32.png) [@anson](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/anson)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2016, 10:17am UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/ppt-is-not-playing/4022/3 "2016-02-11T10:17:49Z")

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Hi  
Can we increase the file size more than 128 mb

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### Author: ![Peter](https://community.xibo.org.uk/user_avatar/community.xibo.org.uk/peter/32/8154_2.png) [@Peter](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/Peter)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2016, 1:02pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/ppt-is-not-playing/4022/4 "2016-02-11T13:02:34Z")

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Yes, you can, you will need to adjust the settings in php.ini, as described here:

> [@How do I upload files bigger than 2MB / How can I increase the upload file size limit?](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/how-do-i-upload-files-bigger-than-2mb-how-can-i-increase-the-upload-file-size-limit/27):
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> Other symptoms include an error when uploading files: SyntaxError: JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data or simply the message true Xibo does not limit file upload size - but PHP does. You need to edit your php.ini file for your system to support large file uploads. By default, the php.ini file is in the following locations: Ubuntu (with Apache): /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini Ubuntu (with php-fpm - for example with nginx or lighttpd): /etc/php5/fpm/php.ini Wind…

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### Author: ![system](https://community.xibo.org.uk/uploads/default/original/2X/a/a8759c2d8cc561474733895ac75beeb830f5d8ca.png) [@system](https://community.xibo.org.uk/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2020, 5:04pm UTC](https://community.xibo.org.uk/t/ppt-is-not-playing/4022/5 "2020-03-04T17:04:15Z")

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