[users] Impress: video in slides sometimes fails - progress

2006-12-28 Thread Peter Payzant
Hi, all- Since my previous posting, we've run dozens of tests trying to work out a pattern to the failures. The problem appears to be related to the internal format of the video file. We've tried three different formats, with the following results: 1. AVI, Motion JPEG codec - no failures 2.

[users] Impress: video in slides sometimes fails

2006-12-27 Thread Peter Payzant
Hi, all- I have OOo Impress installed on two Windows XP (SP2) machines. It's version 2.1 on one, and version 2.0.4 on the other. One machine is a relatively new laptop, the other is a five-year old desktop. They have different video chipsets and drivers. I'm getting a weird problem while

[users] Re: Playing video in OO Impress

2006-12-19 Thread Peter Payzant
Hi, all- Configuring my Fedora Core 5 platform to play videos in OO Impress has been an uphill battle, and it's not over yet. Before I invest any more time, I'd like to know what the impact of large video files will be on my presentation. Specifically 1. Are video files actually included in

[users] Re: Impress impressively slow :(

2006-12-16 Thread Peter Payzant
Thanks to Adrian and Terry for their help with this. I didn't realize that Impress stores images at their original resolutions in its data file - I had naively assumed that they would be stored at some reduced resolution based on the size they appeared when I created the presentation. So,

[users] Impress impressively slow :(

2006-12-15 Thread Peter Payzant
Hi, all- I have just installed OOo v2.0.4 on a Windows XP box. I have created a two-slide presentation in Impress, and already I'm in trouble. It's impossibly slow. My first slide has a sequence of about ten images which successively appear, using custom animations. Each image is about a

[users] Playing video in OO Impress

2006-12-09 Thread Peter Payzant
Hi, all- I'd like to include some videos in an OO Impress presentation. After an hour or so of searching the web, I haven't come across anything definite, except that it may not be working yet. One person advocates using an IBM Java applet. Someone else mentions that it uses Netscape plugins,