Re: [libreoffice-users] No audio in Impress with the famous Don McLean Vincent van Gogh pps-file on Linux Mint 17.1

2014-12-25 Thread M Henri Day
2014-12-24 21:37 GMT+01:00 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com: Hi :) Hmm, if you make a copy of a DocX (and Odt) then you can rename the file-ending from .docx to .zip. Then a double click opens the file as though it's a normal zip-file. The audio part is probably saved in a folder inside there.

Re: [libreoffice-users] No audio in Impress with the famous Don McLean Vincent van Gogh pps-file on Linux Mint 17.1

2014-12-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Yeh, Impress doesn't seem to attract quite as many devs as Writer, or even Calc. I suspect that more get involved with Draw too but Base languishes even further behind. The people working on Base are fantastic but it would be nice to attract more people to work on Impress and Base. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] No audio in Impress with the famous Don McLean Vincent van Gogh pps-file on Linux Mint 17.1

2014-12-24 Thread M Henri Day
2014-12-23 2:37 GMT+01:00 anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com: I don't know how Linux works, (maybe there's a work around with this system) but using WINdows, what you're attempting is not possible since (1) VLC Media Player does not recognize PPs -

Re: [libreoffice-users] No audio in Impress with the famous Don McLean Vincent van Gogh pps-file on Linux Mint 17.1

2014-12-24 Thread anne-ology
Just downloaded then attempted to play this - then I opened it in LO to find that there is no sound attached. Therefore here's another example of where MsFt is able to play a sound byte which LO must consider as dangerous ??? A possible solution:

Re: [libreoffice-users] No audio in Impress with the famous Don McLean Vincent van Gogh pps-file on Linux Mint 17.1

2014-12-24 Thread M Henri Day
2014-12-24 21:16 GMT+01:00 anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com: Just downloaded then attempted to play this - then I opened it in LO to find that there is no sound attached. ​That was precisely my point - i e, that LO, for some strange reason, does not seem to recognise the audio

Re: [libreoffice-users] No audio in Impress with the famous Don McLean Vincent van Gogh pps-file on Linux Mint 17.1

2014-12-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Hmm, if you make a copy of a DocX (and Odt) then you can rename the file-ending from .docx to .zip. Then a double click opens the file as though it's a normal zip-file. The audio part is probably saved in a folder inside there. However i get the feeling that the audio component IS already

Re: [libreoffice-users] No audio in Impress with the famous Don McLean Vincent van Gogh pps-file on Linux Mint 17.1

2014-12-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Oops, sorry! A PptX file can be renamed to .zip. It's best to do this to a copy of the file instead of the original one. If it really is the older MS format, ppt or pps then that trick isn't going to work. I think you can just rename pps to ppt but that doesn't help either. I think the

Re: [libreoffice-users] No audio in Impress with the famous Don McLean Vincent van Gogh pps-file on Linux Mint 17.1

2014-12-22 Thread anne-ology
I don't know how Linux works, (maybe there's a work around with this system) but using WINdows, what you're attempting is not possible since (1) VLC Media Player does not recognize PPs - if the sound was actually attached -

[libreoffice-users] No audio in Impress with the famous Don McLean Vincent van Gogh pps-file on Linux Mint 17.1

2014-12-21 Thread M Henri Day
​I e, I get the slide show, ​but no sound. If I attempt to play the presentation in, e g, VLC Media Player, I get the music, but no images. Very frustrating ?... Any suggestions as to how I can get *son et lumière* to work together, preferably in Impress ? I can mention that I've installed