Re: [SLUG] Videos in presentation software
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 12:30 +1000, James Gregory wrote: Hi all, I need to give a presentation which will include some videos. Currently they're avi files, but I'm just as happy to make them mpeg or whatever. I ended up using the 100build of OpenOffice 2 beta. I used the instructions on this page: http://www.ucolick.org/~zingale/OOo_movies/ It worked ok but dropped a lot of frames in the first video I showed with it. Don't miss the step about altering your classpath *inside* OpenOffice; That drove me mad for quite a while. It also seems pretty fussy about what codecs it will use; but less fussy than doing the same thing in PowerPoint. Another oddity is that it behaves differently with different JDKs. Sun's 1.4 JRE opens up a new window for the video while the 1.5 one will embed the movie correctly but it only works once. Anyway, you *can* do it. I thought others here might find the information useful. James. -- My love burns for you A Thermonuclear rose Now lets go make out -- http://www.solardeathray.com/rose.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Videos in presentation software
At Thu, 05 May 2005 12:30:01 +1000, James Gregory wrote: What other options do I have? I haven't tried it, but apparently advi is a DVI viewer (ie: TeX output) designed for presentations that can embed other X11 programs. Also note that PDF can embed movies which acroread might display. I doubt the xpdf-derivatives will cope with that though. -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Videos in presentation software
quote who=James Gregory Can someone point me at a tool that will do what I want? Will MagicPoint display video files? Easily? What other options do I have? mgp can just run random executables at certain points in the presentation. I've used xine and mplayer to play movies during some of mine - works fine. - Jeff -- GUADEC 2005: May 29th-31st http://2005.guadec.org/ We are not lovers. We are not romantics. We are here to serve you. - Gary Numan, Down In The Park -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Videos in presentation software
Hi all, I need to give a presentation which will include some videos. Currently they're avi files, but I'm just as happy to make them mpeg or whatever. I've tried inserting them in various tools, with varying levels of success: * On Ubuntu (Hoary) it crashes openoffice (stable version, whatever's in Hoary). * On Mandrake it inserts the video but won't play it (I get a white box in the middle of the slide) (1.1.4 I think. The current version in cooker) * On Mandrake with the 100 build of the 2beta version, it pops up a dialog telling me The format of the selected file is not supported. (and I've tried with quite a few different file formats). * I just can't find the relevant option in the KOffice presenter thing. Can someone point me at a tool that will do what I want? Will MagicPoint display video files? Easily? What other options do I have? Many thanks, James. -- My love burns for you A Thermonuclear rose Now lets go make out -- http://www.solardeathray.com/rose.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Videos in presentation software
On Thu May 05, 2005 at 12:30:01 +1000, James Gregory wrote: Hi all, I need to give a presentation which will include some videos. Currently they're avi files, but I'm just as happy to make them mpeg or whatever. I've tried inserting them in various tools, with varying levels of success: * On Ubuntu (Hoary) it crashes openoffice (stable version, whatever's in Hoary). * On Mandrake it inserts the video but won't play it (I get a white box in the middle of the slide) (1.1.4 I think. The current version in cooker) * On Mandrake with the 100 build of the 2beta version, it pops up a dialog telling me The format of the selected file is not supported. (and I've tried with quite a few different file formats). * I just can't find the relevant option in the KOffice presenter thing. Can someone point me at a tool that will do what I want? Will MagicPoint display video files? Easily? What other options do I have? I would think the easiest to solve this was an external video player. This is what I have done on occasion. Benno -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Videos in presentation software
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 12:30, James Gregory wrote: Can someone point me at a tool that will do what I want? Will MagicPoint display video files? Easily? What other options do I have? Magicpoint can embed random X applications in a foil with the %xsystem command. I haven't tried it with a media player, but in theory as long as you've got a player for your files, then you should be OK... -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
