I have asked this question a month ago, and again two weeks ago, but never really recieved an answer.
Let me tell you why an answer is really important. I am trying to convert a presentation I made to Austin Linux Group to a form that can be shown on Austin Community Television. Currently Open Office is not much help with this conversion. This is the procedure I use now: I do a convert to .html, throw the .html away and use the images, which I import into DVD-slideshow which converts to video. I record the audio with audacity. This would be a difficult for the typical Joe Sixpack presenter. This is important because I am not unique. It occurs to me that there are public access television stations all over the country: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_access_stations_(United_States) Furthermore, there are Linux groups all over the country: http://www.linuxlinks.com/UserGroups/North_America/United_States/ Most presentations made to Linux groups are Open Office. If every presentation made to a Linux group could be quickly and easily converted to video, and put on public access television it would be a great boon to Free Software, Open Source Software, Linux and OpenOffice as well. The Proprieatry products could not do this because of the non commercial rules. OpenOffice is really dropping the ball by not having usable sound and easy conversion to video. The first step to getting all this to work is to get sound working, hence my question. P.S. I have also tried the latest Ubuntu version with same results as noted below. On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 04:02:55PM -0500, Paul Elliott wrote: > > I have the version of open office that comes with opensuse 10.3. > About OpenOffice.org shows version 2.3.0 > > I am having problems with sound. > > > If I attach a sound with 'Insert/Movie and Sound' it works, that is > sound plays if I do a slide show. The file has to be an .ogg or an > .mp3 not a .wav file. > > However the sound seems to be attached via a link the sound is not > part of the .odp. If I delete the sound file, or move the .odp to > another system where the sound file does not exist then the sound stops > working. I want to distribute the sound when I distribute the .odp. > > On the other hand if I add sound using 'Insert/Object/Sound' then > the sound does not play at all. open suse 10.3. > > > Question is there any way to get 'Insert/Object/Sound' to work? > Are there any Linux distros where 'Insert/Object/Sound' works > out of the box? > > The way 'Insert/Object/Sound' is supposed to work, is the sound > supposed to be included in the .odp or is it a link again? > > > > Also with either of the above two methods, if I export to .swf > or to .html there is no exported sound. The exported Sound does > not appear in the .html files and the .swf file is silent when played > with firefox. > > Are there any Linux distro in which this is not the case? > > What is the state of Sound in Linux Impress? > > -- Paul Elliott 1(512)837-1096 [EMAIL PROTECTED] PMB 181, 11900 Metric Blvd Suite J http://www.io.com/~pelliott/pme/ Austin TX 78758-3117
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