Dan wrote: > On Thursday 07 February 2008 02:51:57 Leslie Danks wrote:
[...] >> >>> I'm just starting to get involved with OpenOffice Impress under >> >>> SUSELinux (and Ubuntu)and would like to insert some sound and/or >> >>> video clips into a presentation. All I get when I do Insert -> Movie >> >>> and Sound -> [File name] is the error message: "The format of the >> >>> selected file is not supported". [...] > What you need to do is go to > http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/2.1.1/download.html and > download jmf-2_1_1e-linux-i586.bin. Then install it according to the > following directions using the command line. For this, I am assuming you > have OOo installed in /opt/. You will also have to become root to do this. > 1) Move JMF to the /opt/ directory. > 2) chmod o+x (Make sure JMF is and executable file.) > 3) ./jmf-2_1_1e-linux-i586.bin (This installs it.) > 4) export > CLASSPATH=$JMFHOME/lib/jmf.jar::$JMFHOME/lib/sound.jar:.:${CLASSPATH} > (Make sure this is on only one line.) > 5)export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$JMFHOME/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH} > 6) Open OOo. > 7) Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org > Java. > a) Click the "Class Path" button. Then click "Add Archive". > b) Browse to /opt/JMF-2.1.1e/lib/. > c) Click jmf.jar. > d) Click OK. > > Close OOo, and reopen it just as you would for JRE. It should work. Thanks!! -- Les --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
