On 09/20/2007 08:11 AM, Robin Laing wrote: > Help, > > Last night I was trying to help my daughter with a presentation for a > school project. She needed to export an presentation with sound but > when exported, there was no sound with the files. At least they > wouldn't play when opened. > > This was done on Linux. This was with OpenOffice 2.2 (Fedora 7 version) > > I installed 2.3 from OOo but I couldn't get any sound. > > I just tried on 2.2 from OOo and I don't get any sound either. If I try > to insert a sound file, even a wave file, I get > "The format of the selected file is not supported" > > According to the Issue Tracker, sound export is supposed to work but I > don't know what version. > > Now what I need to know is does OpenOffice support exporting with sound > or is the problem that I cannot import a PowerPoint presentation with sound? > > The second question is how to get sound working in Linux from the OOo? > >
And that's the $64,000 question. Some have had luck by installing the Sun JMF, but I've never gotten it to work w/Ubuntu 7.04 and standard OOo. (The Ubuntu'ised version of OOo *does* work - I think it uses GStreamer). http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=openoffice+%2Bsun+JMF&btnG=Search http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=245819 [also look at page 1] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
