Re: [libreoffice-users] No audio in Impress with the famous Don McLean Vincent van Gogh pps-file on Linux Mint 17.1

2014-12-24 21:16 GMT+01:00 anne-ology <laginnis@gmail.com>:

>        Just downloaded then attempted to play this -
>            then I opened it in LO to find that there is no sound attached.

​That was precisely my point - i e, that LO, for some strange reason, does
not seem to recognise the audio files found in the .pps file....


> ​T​
> herefore
> ​ [sic !]​
> here's another example of where MsFt is able to play a sound byte
> ​ which LO must consider as dangerous  ???

​Not certain that ​LO considers the audio files embedded in the this .pps
file as «dangerous» - one receives no notification to that effect - but it
can't play them....

> ​ ​
>
>   A possible solution:
> ​ play in MsFt PP then go 'behind the scenes' to collect the audio​
> sound byte
> ​[sic !]...
>   then piece the video with the audio together & save for you
> ​​r ​enjoyment.

​Just how do you suggest one can «go behind the scene»​ to nab these audio
files ? That's precisely the sort of instruction I'm looking for....

Henri

From: M Henri Day <mhenriday@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 12:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] No audio in Impress with the famous Don
> McLean Vincent van Gogh pps-file on Linux Mint 17.1
> To: anne-ology <laginnis@gmail.com>
> Cc: "LibreOffice, users" <users@global.libreoffice.org>

​<snip>​


>  > From: M Henri Day <mhenriday@gmail.com>
> > Date: Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 2:38 PM
> > Subject: [libreoffice-users] No audio in Impress with the famous Don
> McLean
> > Vincent van Gogh pps-file on Linux Mint 17.1
> > To: "LibreOffice, users" <users@global.libreoffice.org>
> >
> > ​I e, I get the slide show, ​but no sound. If I attempt to play the
> > presentation in, e g, VLC Media Player, I get the music, but no images.
> > Very frustrating ?...
> >
> > Any suggestions as to how I can get *son et lumière* to work together,
> > preferably in Impress ? I can mention that I've installed
> > libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer, but no joy....
> > ​​
> > Henri​
>
> ​Thanks for your reply, anne-ology !  fear you misunderstood me ; I first
> tried opening the .pps file in LibreOffice Impress, before checking to see
> what would happen in the event I opened it in other media players such as
> VLC. As stated above, I got no sound when I did so on my Linux Mint 17.1
> machine ; I can report that the audio portion of the file didn't work any
> better in Impress (LO version: 4.3.5.2) on an updated 64-bit Windows 8.1
> machine. I had, of course, no difficulty whatever playing it in Powerpoint
> (MS Office 2013)....
>
> Anyone else
> ​have any suggestions ? This wonderful presentation is available online -
> 4peonies.com/VanGogh.pps - so interested LO users can easily give it a
> whirl and see if they get better results than I do....
>
> Henri

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