On 06/10/2007 04:25 PM, NoOp wrote: > On 06/10/2007 02:35 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: >> On Sunday June 10 2007 4:26 pm, NoOp wrote: > >>> > >>> > OOo 2.2.1(rc2) linux. I thought perhaps it might be because I am >>> > using an rc, so I tried in StarOffice8 and a standard 2.2.0 >>> > version w/same results. So then I tried inserting via >>> > Insert|Movie and Sound - comes back as "The format of the >>> > selected file is not supported". Odd, since WAVE Audio clearly >>> > shows up as a valid selection option under the Insert Movie and >>> > Sound File type dropdown. >>> >>> As an added note: I *can* play all of the WAVs in the OOo >>> presentation that has been saved as a .ppt presention when I use an >>> MS PPT viewer installed on linux using WINE. >> >> Do you have jmf-2_1_1e-linux-i586.bin installed. It is available from >> www.sun.com. The download is proably jmf-2_1_1e-linux-i586.tz or >> something similar to it. There is also likely a later version. This >> is require for OOo to play sounds even in slide trasitions on Linux. >> (See the User Guide.) >> >> Dan > > Un friggin believable! Userguide takes from page 490 to 496 on how to > install JMF and get sound working on linux. Thank for the info... I will > install it and test. But that brings up a couple of simple questions: > > 1. Why isn't something like this already embedded in OOo? > 2. What are others supposed to do once I've created my presentation? > There seems to be no method to embed the sound in the presentation, and > even if it were, it appears that they would have to go through the JMF > (I can think of other meanings for those initials...) nonsense as well > in order to get the presentation to play on their system as well. > > I wonder if this would call under > http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=24969 > or if a new/other bug is appropriate. > > Most linux systems already have alternate sound players installed: > mplayer, totem, realplayer, gstream, etc., etc., etc. And now OOo > requires JMF simply to play a simple WAV file in an Impress presentation? > Sorry, not ranting at you... I just find it incredulous that this > problem still exists in OOo.
Another added note: I just tried both the original PPT and the OOo saved PPT and otp file on Ubuntu's Ubuntu'ized OOo 2.2 and the sound runs just fine. No JMF (I'll still working on 'properly' installing on my standard OOo versions), nothing... it just works. So it appears that Ubuntu have taken the initiative and modified OOo to work with a gstreamer plugin of sorts, and basic sound works out of the box. Unfortunately (U)OOo has broken wizards and Base address issues so it's not a viable option for production work. It amazes me that distro specific versions of OOo can provide sound and import filters (WP if I recall), and yet simple sound for Impress presentations are not available in the standard OOo linux? Further, the instructions for installing & implementing JMF per the User Guide calls for actually editing the soffice executable: ==== 2. Edit the soffice executable that is used to invoke OpenOffice.org (maybe /opt/openoffice.org2.0/program/soffice) and add the following near or at else LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$sd_prog$add_moz_lib" fi so it looks like this: else LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$sd_prog$add_moz_lib:$JMFHOME/lib" fi remembering to substitute $JMFHOME with the path to where JMF is installed and save the file. ==== So OOo expect linux users to modify an executable (I take this to mean the shell script vs the soffice.bin) just to get JMF to run... amazing. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
