On 02/24/2009 06:38 PM, Keith Bates wrote: > I've just started using Impress for classes I teach at a local > government school. I haven't used impress much and powerpoint not at > all-- and I don't have a copy of pp at home to play with. > > I use OO under linux and the school has a smart board set-up powered by > Windows XP and using MS Office. I'm producing presentations in Impress > to be used in Powerpoint. I'm not sure of the version of pp used, but I > would be guessing it's older than 2007. > > I would like to embed a music file that plays while the presentation > progresses... the mp3 has a song and the next few slides have the words > to the song which the kids then sing. > > I tried to do this but for some reason I got an error message saying > that the particular format, mp3, could not be attached to the > presentation in the linux version. Is there any way around this? I've > got the various codecs etc installed and can play mp3s, so it seems to > be a decision by OOo developers to restrict the formats depending on the > OS. That sort of undermines the cross-platform credentials just a tad. > > If this can't be worked around, can someone tell me if ogg format is > supported by Powerpoint? > > And a related question which relates more to powerpoint than openoffice, > but since the members of this list are infinitely wise and > knowledgeable :) If I attach the song file to the slide with the text > of the first verse, and then go back to that slide after a chorus, for > example, can it be set up so as not to restart the sound file? If not, I > guess the way to do it is insert a blank slide that contains the sound > file. > > Thanks for any answers people may be able to share on these questions. > >
Keith, After you've installed JMF & the MP3 plugin & find it limited (doesn't play oog's etc), I'd recommend that you go and download either the go-oo build or the OxygenOffice builds. Both use the gstreamer patches and both play sound and video out of the box (including ogg's): http://go-oo.org/ http://go-oo.org/discover/ http://ooop.wiki.sourceforge.net/ You may already have the go-oo build with your distribution of linux. Post what distro you are using and someone can adivse. Note that go-oo and OxygenOffice are also available for Windows. Also see: http://go-oo.org/download/ for derivatives, and http://katana.oooninja.com/w/editions_of_openoffice.org [dated but useful] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
