On Thu May 05, 2005 at 12:30:01 +1000, James Gregory wrote: >Hi all, > >I need to give a presentation which will include some videos. Currently >they're avi files, but I'm just as happy to make them mpeg or whatever. > >I've tried inserting them in various tools, with varying levels of >success: > >* On Ubuntu (Hoary) it crashes openoffice (stable version, whatever's in >Hoary). > >* On Mandrake it inserts the video but won't play it (I get a white box >in the middle of the slide) (1.1.4 I think. The current version in >cooker) > >* On Mandrake with the 100 build of the 2beta version, it pops up a >dialog telling me "The format of the selected file is not >supported." (and I've tried with quite a few different file formats). > >* I just can't find the relevant option in the KOffice presenter thing. > >Can someone point me at a tool that will do what I want? Will MagicPoint >display video files? Easily? What other options do I have?
I would think the easiest to solve this was an external video player. This is what I have done on occasion. Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
