NoOp wrote:
On 09/20/2007 10:08 AM, NoOp wrote:
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]
OK, after all this time I *finally* got JMF to work. The trick was
following a combination of the Sun instructions, instructions from posts
2 (james_h) and 7 (hovel).
Here is what I did (this is on Ubuntu 7.04 w/OOo 2.3 so modify according
to your distro):
1. Downloaded the JMF bin file from:
http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/2.1.1/download.html
Followed the instructions on that page:
<quote>
If you are installing the JMF Performance Pack for Linux
* Change directories to the install location.
* Run the command % /bin/sh ./jmf-2_1_1e-linux-i586.bin
</quote>
by moving the file to my /opt directory.
2. From a terminal:
$ cd /opt
$ sudo /bin/sh ./jmf-2_1_1e-solaris-sparc.bin
Accepted/yes to all except the last where it recommends that you enter "no".
That creates the /opt/JMF-2.1.1e folder/directory
$ export JMFHOME=/opt/JMF-2.1.1e
$ export
CLASSPATH=$JMFHOME/lib/jmf.jar::$JMFHOME/lib/sound.jar:.:${CLASSPATH}
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$JMFHOME/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
3. Opened OOo: Tools/Options/Java/Class Path - _browse_ to
/opt/JMF-2.1.1e/lib and click on jmf.jar - click OK.
Sound now works! :-) Man... I've been fighting with this for over a year
now.
I think I will have to try the performance pack version.
Can you export to PowerPoint with sound though?
--
Robin Laing
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