On 09/07/2010 12:17 AM, Mike Scott wrote:
> On 07/09/10 02:43, NoOp wrote:
> .....
>>> I'm wondering about creating a presentation, actually for a church
>>> service. This will have slides for song words etc in the usual way. But
>>> part way through, it would be advantageous to have a live feed from a
>>> video camera within the church, and to have the video from this appear
>>> on-screen as part of the presentation.
>>>
>>> Obviously one could stop/pause impress, switch to a different app and
>>> show the live video, then switch back to impress for the rest of the
>>> service, but this looks a very clumsy approach and I was hoping (vainly
>>> perhaps?!) for something a little smoother.
>>>
>>> Hope that's clearer! But I most strongly suspect I'm out of luck :-{
>>>
>>
>> Got it. Interesting project/concept, I'll do some experimenting& see if
>> I can figure out a way to do this. What OS& version of OOo?
>
> Choice of ubuntu 10.04/OOo 3.2 or XP/3.x. I'm sure any solution would be
> highly OS-dependent.
>
> But I've been hunting high and low, found nothing remotely resembling
> this idea. Not even on someone else's wish-list :-{
>
> Generalizing a bit, I'd say what's needed within OOo is a way to embed
> windows maintained by other helper applications, although how a
> continuous update could then occur, I can't imagine (or even if it's
> possible in general). Even a facility within Impress to 'run external
> app, background myself and wait till it exits' would help...... hmmm,
> sounds like a shell, and thinking about it, maybe /that/ could be done
> with a macro: I'll have to look into that. It's all a bit theoretical at
> the moment, thank goodness.
>
> Thanks for the reply, btw.
>
OOo Impress has the ability to run a program, see:
<http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Using_Movies_in_Impress_on_Linux_Without_Java>
So perhaps you can experiment with that.
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