Hi Tom This was in an old user posting "If you insert a sound object using Insert > Movie and Sound it will play immediately when you show the slide in a slide show.
One way to make the sound start when you want is to make an exact duplicate of the slide and embed the sound on the second slide. You just advance to the second slide to start the sound. The second way is to insert an object that is not a sound and use it as a button to start the sound. For example: Insert > Picture > From File You could choose a picture that looks like a speaker icon. With the picture selected, right click it and choose Interaction... Beside Action at mouse click, choose Play Sound Click the Browse button and select a sound file to play. Click OK In your slide show, click the picture "icon" to start playing the sound." Perhaps it might be a work around? regards Martin On Mon, 2 May 2011 22:32:43 +0100 (BST) Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi :) > Enabling "experimental features" didn't help with the sound links. Is > it likely to be the format? Mp3 is not optimal for LO? Is it likely to > be because the sound files are not stored in LO's sound gallery? > > > I am sorry to bring this back to the documentation team but the users > list seems to have no idea. The documentation team has already been far > more helpful! > > Regards from > Tom :) > > > > > ----- Forwarded Message ---- > From: "t...@iafrica.com" <t...@iafrica.com> > To: Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> > Sent: Sun, 1 May, 2011 9:17:58 > Subject: Impress with sound? The background > > > Hi Tom, > > Just to clarify for you in discussion with Jean.... > > The system is: > > XP Pro + Service Pack 3 > > running on an i5 CPU > > LibreOffice 3.3.0 > OOO330m19 (Build:6) > tag libreoffice-3.3.0.4 > > My Impress presentation has a total of 107 individual slides (pages) > > Each page has graphic icons which when clicked activate a short audio > clip. > > The entire purpose of the system is to test the concept of using icons > and sound for illiterate people to take a specific test. > > Once the presentation is working and all icons and audio files checked > and working I then hand it over to a VB.net programmer who will turn my > work into hard code for use on multiple workstations. > > Using a powerpoint style facility allows me to test all issues without > wasting programming time. > > The exact problem is as follows: > > Each page has between 4 and 7 icons linked to MP3 format files. > > I simply use the "interaction function play sound" to make the icons > "hot" > > I use the interaction function to browse for the file concerned and then > say OK. That's sets the link. > > I have had all 107 pages and the 409 links working without apparent > problem. > > One night I closed the Impress file saved as odp and when I came to > start LibO Impress the following day and use it not a singler link > worked! Text and pictures were fine just the link was broken. > > When I opened the "interaction" of each icon you could see the path to > the file was still there and correct. > > Plse note when this happens ALL links go not just a few. What ever > happens is instant. No warning, no error just all links "switched off". > > The icons remain "hot" i.e if you run the mouse onto them the cursor > changes from "arrow" to "pointing finger" indicating a hidden link, > however the audio link is no longer active. > > The only way to recover the link is to open the "interaction -play > sound" and re-browse the link.. it does not work if you try copy and > paste. It seems to need the re-browse + OK to reset the link. Once done > it works fine. > > The trouble is there's no warning it's going to happen. Sometimes you > can close the file and re-open and all links are ok. > > By the way the loss will happen when you close and open impress.... I > usually leave XP running and only close the application. > > It's catch 22 as you never know if when you save the file it's happened > again so the idea of creating back-ups is flawed... > > Whether the links are lost during closing or opening the file I do not > know. > > According to a linux wizz at the work the presentation works ok on Linux > Ubuntu. By that I mean he can't lose the links (so far). > > The second issue is that if you save the presentation as .ppt and try > and open in MS Office then the text and pictures convert without > problem but the sound links simply do not exist. Its not a case of they > are there but not working.... the path is simply not converted so all > icons do not highlight when you run the mouse cursor on them... i.e > they are not hot. > > Right now I can't do any further prototype development of my system as > the frequent loss of links prevents it... > > Hope this helps to better explain the background to this. > > sincerely > > timi > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted -- Martin J Fox 马丁·福克斯 mar...@mjfox.ch buti...@bluewin.ch _______________________________________ VK7MM/HB9TQX www.mjfox.ch / www.badwolf.ch QQ 1472808085 / MSN buti...@hotmail.com Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. 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