NoOp wrote:
Does *anyone* know of an easy 'how-to' for transporting an Impress
presentation that has sound & video in the the presentation to another
system?
This subject has come up time and again on the list & the varied
results/answers/non-answers seem to change with each new version of OOo.
I'm not looking for a 'Pack & Go' like Powerpoint that also includes a
viewer, see:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=22147
[selfe-executing presentations]
instead, I am just looking for a simple method to have OOo fully embed
the sound/video files in the .odp so that when I use that same .odp on
another system with OOo installed it will play in the same manner as the
original.
The only way that I've managed to do this in the past is to create the
.odp using sound/video files within the same folder, then exporting the
whole lot. If the sound/video files were obtained from different folders
on the system, even including those with the .odp (or .ppt if saved as a
.ppt) doesn't work. There seems to be no way to look at and modify the
sound/video links (that I can find) from within Impress 3.1.1.
This issue becomes a *major* issue when sending an .odp to someone else;
they'll be able to play the slideshow, but of course sound & video
doesn't work even if you send them along the external sound/video
files... unless of course the presentation used files within the folder
from which it was created.
Note: I have tested with the java jmf installed on both systems, and
also tested with the Ubuntu/xiamian/go-oo/novell versions as well. So
sound and video are working across the test systems.
When you use WinZip to create an archive collection of files you are
offered the choice of having the archive remember the folder name of
each file. When you "unarchive" such an archive WinZip offers you the
choice of replicating that folder structure. I'm pretty sure 7Zip does
the same. I'd bet money that tar and similar *nix programs do too. So if
you use one of these programs to send your ODP and if you give
instructions to the recipient to be sure to replicate the folder
structure then s/he should be in good shape, no?
Note, I'm *not* saying OOo shouldn't support this; just that there might
be a simple workaround.
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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