Background: (sorry it's so long) I am in the process of migrating from a Windows environment to using Linux and open software. I have been using OpenOffice.org for a little while and am very impressed. Currently I am using version 1.9.122. I also have 1.1.3 installed and have used it, although not as much. My computer is an AOpen white box laptop with a Pentium M 745 (1.8GHz), ATI Mobility Radeon 9700, and 1Gb ram. It came with Windows XP installed which I used with MS Office 2003 until about 5 months ago. I was dual-booting but have recently replaced my hard drive (due to hardware failure) and decided that since I was using Linux almost exclusively I would not bother to reinstall Windows. I am now using Ubuntu 5.04.
Actual need: I often give presentations to groups of varying sizes and have used MS PowerPoint to do so for years. I have found Ooo's Impress to be quite good and am now migrating all of my presentations. However, I have hit a snag with one particular presentation. It is an auto-advance presentation with an embedded sound object that plays automatically from the first slide and continues to the end of the presentation while the slides are changing. I want to continue to use this presentation or at least make a new one with the same ability. My problem: I have thus far been unsuccessful in embedding sound files in a slide in Ooo (version 1.9.x as I've used several of the betas as well as 1.1.3). I have found the proper method to do so to be quite easy (Insert->Object->Sound and then point to the file I want). However, to my dismay I have not yet found Ooo to be able to play any multimedia format I have. I have tested mp3's, ogg's, wav's, as well as movie formats such as mov's, mpeg's, mpg's and so on. If I go to Tools->Media Player I have found it unable to play any multimedia files as well. I know it is not a codec problem or multimedia incapability problem with my system because I can use Xine, Totem, VLC, Rhythmbox and other programs to play anything I like. My question: (finally) Is my problem simply because Ooo 2.0 is still in beta? Is this a feature that is planned but just not yet implemented? Or is there something I need to do to configure the suite to make my goal possible? Thank you for reading my long question. I hope I have given you enough info to help me out without being tedious. I appreciate the work Sun has done on Ooo and am looking forward to continued productive use of your software. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
