Re: [discuss] Re: MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future
Hi everyone! Just want to write about two things: THING 1 I got back a response on Issue Issue 41419 Support for playing back movies in impress with RealPlayer + avmedia. http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=41419 Please read the comments and vote on the issue and comment yourself. Maybe more votes and comments will help to stimulate the powers that be about this issue. THING 2 Rob! Thank you for the information about Accordent. The free program is called, PresenterOne Basic, Anyone can check it out here along with the pay versions. http://www.realnetworks.com/products/presenterone/ At least it provides, as you indicated Rob, ...a stop-gap -- if you are running Windows Below is some information on the web site about PresenterOne Basic. PresenterONE Basic provides a great way to start creating professional streaming presentations. It enables content creators to create professional presentations with on demand RealMedia and synchronized PowerPoint slides all displayed in the RealPlayer all of this using a wizard-based tool that provides step-by-step guidance and requires absolutely no hand coding. --On demand RealMedia support --Synchronized PowerPoint slides --Auto-publish to CD or on demand --Customizable interfaces --Presentations up to 15 minutes in length Input anyone on Thing 1 and/or Thing 2?? SC On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:14:14 -0600, Rod Engelsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sounds very much like a viable third-party add-on sort of app. Accordent makes something very similar to MS Producer called PresenterOne that produces RealMedia files. Since nothing exists open-source yet, as a stop-gap -- if you are running Windows -- you can download their basic version for free. It is limited to a 15-minute presentation, though. They also have two higher versions -- one is Standard (or some such nomenclature) which removes the 15-minute limit and adds some more features, and a Professional version that lets you set up streaming media over the web. Lots of money for those, though. I'm interested in all this as well, because I have to produce a PP presentation with voice-over for a class. The 15-minute version is too short for my needs and MS Producer -- even if I could stomach the thought of using MS for this -- requires Office 2003 and all I have is Office 2000. I guess I'm just going to have to add sound to each transition and have a Click here for next slide button or something. Rod - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Re: MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: I don't think we should care about anything else beyond free formats - Ogg Vorbis and perhaps uncompressed Wav You know what I care about right now? Producing a 25 to 45 minute presentation in Powerpoint format with voice-over. Personally, I could give a flying fig whether it's in rm, wav, Ogg Vorbis, mp3 or whatever. The fact is that right now -- before the end of the semester at least -- I have to create this presentation. I would prefer to do as much of this using free software in Linux as I can. As it stands that won't be possible. I will likely have to boot into XP (I'm running dual boot with FC3), create the presentation in Powerpoint, and see what I can do with PresenterOne. Probably end up with 2 or 3 of those files because of the 15 minute limitation. I understand your political point, but arguing over how to do this and be as pure as possible is just going to slow the whole exercise down to a crawl and force people like me to use Windows even longer. Amen. Well said Rod. Thank you for bringing some sense into this. +1 -Chad Smith - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Re: MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future
On Friday 18 March 2005 12:25, Rod Engelsman wrote: Nicu Buculei wrote: I don't think we should care about anything else beyond free formats - Ogg Vorbis and perhaps uncompressed Wav You know what I care about right now? Producing a 25 to 45 minute presentation in Powerpoint format with voice-over. I would love to see this preso. I will be glad to pay for the shipping, if you could burn it to a CD. Rod, I really think that you should consider getting a Linspire computer with Linspire 5.0. You are more a sophisticated end user than I am, but I do know from reading your posts that you probably would not call yourself a script hacker. That is exactly what Linspire is for. If you are open to testing it, I will see about geting one for you. I would consider purchasing your CNR membership, if needed. The only problem for you, though, is that I recall that you are on dial up, because you live in a remote area of Kansas. I will brainstorm with the Linspire guys and see if there is a recommended solution for you. I think that you will be really impressed with Linspire 5.0. SuSE or Xandros or Mepis or Knoppix are okay for intermediate users, but for end users like you and I, Linspire really is the best solution if you have more complex stuff like audio that you need to do. SuSE, Mepis and Knoppix are getting there, but they are still lagging behind Linspire. Linspire is actually kind of what Christensen would call an up-market migration by a disruptive technology. Linspire is actually a low-end disruption, because for not much money, you get tons and tons of free software. Okay, that same software could also be obtained for free over the Internet, but Linspire is for more demanding customers who aren't able to do that for themselves, and so Linspire sells the service of providing you with an out-of-the-box plug-and-play experience which really does rival what you would see on Apple or Windows. And all for not much money. You should also go to Sub300.com, because they have really good prices there for total out-of-the-box Linspire solutions. The weakness of the Linspire solution is the need to have a high speed connection, but the Linspire community is really as tight as this OOo community, and I'm sure that if you spent some time on their forums, you would find someone there who is willing to brainstorm a solution for you. Personally, I could give a flying fig whether it's in rm, wav, Ogg Vorbis, mp3 or whatever. The fact is that right now -- before the end of the semester at least -- I have to create this presentation. What is your time deadline on that? I would prefer to do as much of this using free software in Linux as I can. As it stands that won't be possible. I will likely have to boot into XP (I'm running dual boot with FC3), create the presentation in Powerpoint, and see what I can do with PresenterOne. Probably end up with 2 or 3 of those files because of the 15 minute limitation. I understand your political point, but arguing over how to do this and be as pure as possible is just going to slow the whole exercise down to a crawl and force people like me to use Windows even longer. +1 Now you no longer have to use Windows. I think that if we could get you into a decent Linspire 5.0 box, you would be amazed. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [discuss] Re: MSN Producer like program in OO Impress's future
On Friday 18 March 2005 13:16, Chad Smith wrote: I understand your political point, but arguing over how to do this and be as pure as possible is just going to slow the whole exercise down to a crawl and force people like me to use Windows even longer. Amen. Well said Rod. Thank you for bringing some sense into this. I think that you also should check out Linspire again, Chad. I know that you had an installation issue, but have you checked out the prices at Sub300.com recently? They have really decent boxes for not that much. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
