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Thread ID: 89986	2008-05-18 23:34:00	OpenOffice 2.4 multimedia and linux	dion (8550)	Press F1

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670622	2008-05-18 23:34:00	I have OpenOffice 2.4 running on Linux (Asus EEE PC - Xandros). It works brilliantly. I cannot get it to play videos. Specifically I want it to play mp4 videos in impress. 1) The inbuilt player (mplayer) plays them okay. 2) In OO you goto TOOLS/MEDIA PLAYER i) it says : unsupported file format, install jmf.jar ii) I install jmf.jar - it now hangs and I must <code>killall ooffice*</code> jmf.jar is the JAVA Media Frame Work I have tried: 1) installing the generic linux version from Sun 2) the optimised linux version from Sun 3) the Xandros version 4) extracting only jmf.jar and entering it as a class in OpenOffice all 4 attempts result in an OpenOffice hang. <sigh>:groan: Has anyone got any videos to work in OpenOffice? 1) if so - what type? 2) what specific codec Has anyone got mp4 to work in OpenOffice The only option I can see is to create a macro calling a shell script to invoke the external mplayer, which seems like a huge great big fudge for something that should work... The problem with this too, is that you then need to click on the macro icon, which is ugly. Any ideas?	dion (8550)
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