On Thu, 08 May 2008 23:15:11 -0700 NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > On 05/08/2008 06:57 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > On Wed, 07 May 2008 20:31:51 -0700 > > NoOp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo: > > > >> On 05/07/2008 04:32 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> > Never mind, I sorted it. > >> > >> And if you did it's always helpful to the list to know _how_ you sorted > >> it out. That and the responses to your other thread regarding playing > >> video in Impress. > > > > Oh, that's easy. I opened my eyes and saw the toolbar on the bottom of > > the window. And that also solved the problem of getting the video to > > play. it was originally an .flv file and since I couldn't get it to > > play I assumed it was not a supported file format. But after converting > > it to .mpg I still didn't realize the toolbar was down there. Once I > > saw it I had no further problems. > > > > Having said that, I should probably tell the documentation people that > > their instructions could use some clarity. Like telling people WHERE > > the icon for playing the video is located. :) > > > > Pretty dumb, eh? > > Nope. But I've no clue as to what you are referring to. So it would be > helpful if you could describe what this toolbar and icon is that you > found to play your mpeg file.
OK, here's what you can do to reproduce my stupidity. Open a new Impress document and create at least one slide. Do Insert > Movie and Sound > and select an mpg file. This will place the video on the slide and the first frame will appear, as though it were a photo. This is the point where I was stuck. I couldn't find any buttons to make it play. Then I selected the "photo" and, lo and behold, a toolbar popped up in the bottom of the program window. I clicked on the > and off it went. I had selected it various times before but I was expecting an > to appear on the slide or on top of the "photo." I was too blind to look at the bottom of the window. In my defense it was late at night and I was tired. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
