Hi Everyone!
I would like to thank everyone who responded to and posted their input
and ideas about a presentation player (like MSN Producer) and/or a
media player in OO. I have not installed OO v2.0Beta as of yet and do
not know what options they have to play media in OO Impress, if any. I know that, in the past, if I wanted to include a sound clip and/or
video into a slide I would just do it in PowerPoint because it was
much more do-able in that program. I do not have MSN Office anything
on my computer so I would always have to work on those slides outside
of home. A real drag. I hope the folks working on v2.0 have done
something about this.
I cannot think of learning a program language like C++, which someone suggested in this thread, until the summer. I am hoping someone with this programming skill will consider developing for OO in the near future (to fit in with v2.0), 1. An MSN Producer like program (Presentation Program), that could be run on the web and desktop. [Maybe allow for the plugin of any player with OO (as someone mentioned previously)]. 2. Portable program which will run and open OO files on any computer that does not have OO installed. [Flash is nice in OO Impress, but animations and audio/video cannot be viewed with it]
Frankly, maybe I am too naive or optimistic, I think the above would help give OO more market share because more people who are a bit afraid of opensource would get to see it in action.
I dunno! Does anyone else have thoughts about this.
Anyway to catch the "eye" of developers regarding this?
SC
It sounds very much like a viable third-party add-on sort of app. Accordent makes something very similar to MS Producer called PresenterOne that produces RealMedia files.
Since nothing exists open-source yet, as a stop-gap -- if you are running Windows -- you can download their basic version for free. It is limited to a 15-minute presentation, though. They also have two higher versions -- one is Standard (or some such nomenclature) which removes the 15-minute limit and adds some more features, and a Professional version that lets you set up streaming media over the web. Lots of money for those, though.
I'm interested in all this as well, because I have to produce a PP presentation with voice-over for a class. The 15-minute version is too short for my needs and MS Producer -- even if I could stomach the thought of using MS for this -- requires Office 2003 and all I have is Office 2000.
I guess I'm just going to have to add sound to each transition and have a "Click here for next slide" button or something.
Rod
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