Rob wrote: >Hi, > >I have now OpenOffice.Org-2.0RC3, on Unix >(FreeBSD 5.4). > >In my work, including movie/animations (e.g. mpeg >files) into a presentation is essential. So far >OOO was inable of doing so, and I had switch to a >Windows PC with MS-Powerpoint for my presentations. > >With version 2.0, there seems to be some >improvements, but I still cannot get it right. > >When I tried to include movies first, I got a message >that some Java JRE was missing; so I installed SUN's >Java 1.4 package. > >Now I still get an error window when including an >mpeg file: >"The format of the selected file is not supported." > > Rob, I just found this and am going to try it out myself, let me know if it works..
http://jffmpeg.sourceforge.net/download.html Wes >Searching the OOO mailing lists, I found another >hint to download some kind of IBM Java applet: > http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/tk4mpeg4 > >but this is commercial and allows me to only >use this 90 days for free (unless I buy it). > >Is there no 'free' way to include movies into OOO? > >I use mplayer and mpeg_play software to play movies; >why does OOO need commercial software for doing the >same? > >Help and assistance is very much appreciated! > >Thanks, >Rob. > > > > > >__________________________________ >Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 >http://mail.yahoo.com > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
