On Monday 02 January 2006 11:56, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 00:57 -0700, Stephen Bosch wrote: > > Hi: > > > > I know this is covered in the FAQ, but it's not clear whether it's > > referring to Impress 1.1.5 or 2.0. > > > > Is there a way to embed video in Impress in Linux? I have some MPEG > > clips I want to use in a presentation, and Impress has a "Movie and > > Sound" option in the Insert menu, as well as an Object | Video. Neither > > of these are working for me -- with the Object | Video option I get a > > big ugly icon that does nothing, and with the Movie and Sound, Impress > > complains about the file format. > > > > Any method that will work is fine, even if it calls an external > > application. I just want to integrate it cleanly into the presentation. > > You might find > http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/impress/movies_without_java.pdf > very useful.
It is useful, it's got a couple of errors in it (the geometry is wrong in the example shell script and I needed to add "sh" immediately following the quotes on the Shell line in the macro. Still, it opens Xine externally - is there anyway to get it to embed directly in the presentation itself? Wes --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
