On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 12:30 +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 ended up using the 100build of OpenOffice 2 beta. I used the
instructions on this page:
http://www.ucolick.org/~zingale/OOo_movies/
It worked ok but dropped a lot of frames in the first video I showed
with it. Don't miss the step about altering your classpath *inside*
OpenOffice; That drove me mad for quite a while.
It also seems pretty fussy about what codecs it will use; but less fussy
than doing the same thing in PowerPoint.
Another oddity is that it behaves differently with different JDKs. Sun's
1.4 JRE opens up a new window for the video while the 1.5 one will embed
the movie correctly but it only works once.
Anyway, you *can* do it. I thought others here might find the
information useful.
James.
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