Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 81799
No sound save-as or export in either html/SWF or PowerPoint.
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:20:06 UTC
This is a repeat of issue 58428 which was closed, due to being fixed, in May of last year. Today I downloaded and installed 2.3 on two different Linux machines. Configured JMF to make sure sounds were playing and tried to export a Presentation to html/Flash or PowerPoint format. In all cases the slides were present but there was no sound. The original sound files were wav files. I tried to open the ppt files in Impress again but there was no sound. To ensure that there was a sound issue, I then tried the presentation on two different Windows XP computers. In neither case was there any sound. I originally tried in Office 2.2 from both Fedora and OOo's own site with no success either. I am waiting for responses on the OOo users mail list to see if anyone is successful with exporting sound files. I am adding the sound with "Insert > Movie and Sound" and have the sound configured to play when the slide opens. There is no sound icon in the PPT file. There are no references to sound in the html files. The presentation had to be completed in, the shame of it, PowerPoint as it was required today.
Working with someone on the users list, I have confirmed that no sound is embeded in a saved presentation. I may have missed a setting but I cannot find any way to embed sound in the presentation. Another user has confirmed that opening and saving a Powerpoint presentation in OOo will save the embeded sound. I asked him if he could test a new presentation and if he could embed the sound. Even an exported PowerPoint presentation into the same directory as the original Impress presentation wouldn't play any sound. The file sizes are all to small to have included the sound anyways. Something I never thought of looking at before.
I setup a testfile in OOo with objects and sound when they appear. I saved it as ppt and opened it again: there still was sound. Then I opened the file in PPT: there also was sound. After this I inserted sound dragged in from the gallery. After saving this to ppt and reloading the sounds were gone and did also not appear in PPT.
set target from 2.x to 3.x according to http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Target_3x
I have today found you can embed sound files, but only as an object using OLE or plug-ins. You can even embed it with insert sound media menu, but you have to open the object and add it in the custom animations under the ""Misc Effects" column by selecting "start media". However, with the latter, you lose control over the sound file and the slide transitions. You do have to firstly customise this menu option to see it. All of these methods create slide show playback issues and sound file problems when exporting/emailing the presenation. Different problems arise in various scenarios, if you embed the sound files as per any of the above ... When sending a presentation as a .ppt, using the file menu within the presentation - the auto page transitions are lost (will only advances on mouse click), if the sound file is embedded; also you are left with a file recovery dialoge box if you later try to open the emailed presentation from within your email 'sent' folder. When sending a presentation using the XP classic menu on left hand side of screen, i.e., "email this file" and selecting a .ppt or .pps file, it sends the sound file and the page transitions, but the sound file can only be started on mouse click - it will not start automatically, upon the opening of the slide show. Selecting the sound file from the gallery in the custom transitions still definitely does not embed the sound file in the presentation. For emailing, export, etc. it is dropped, which suggests that Impress is calling up the sound file from the gallery but not embedding it in the presentation. What seems to be missing is the capability of embedding sound files from the Impress Gallery Sound folder and at the same time retaining the feature of these starting automatically when the slide show starts ... or wherever auto required within the slide show - with no mouse click! This currently only works on the slide show creator's p.c. and not on any other, because Impress is playing the file from the Gallery files stored on the creator's p.c. and not from within the presentation itself ... viz a viz, the files are not embedding.
P.S. to report above - am using Ooo.org Version 3.1 with Windows XP Pro