[solved] Presentation with movies

fax8 · 2011-02-23 20:30:37

Hi guys,

in the next weeks I will have to prepare a presentation which will have regular slides but also movies as part of the slides.
I've been trying to add movies to OpenOffice Impress, I managed to install the Java Media Framework but I couldn't install jffmpeg on it as it seems not supported under x86_64..

So, the only thing I've been able to add on an OpenOffice Impress presentation is an MPEG1 video file whose I only ear the sound.. video doesn't display.
It really looks that Impress support for videos is poor.

So, what do you guys suggest? Do you know of other ways of adding videos to OpenOffice Impress?
Other alternative ways of doing that?

Thank you,

Fabio Varesano

Last edited by fax8 (2011-03-26 11:43:28)

escondida · 2011-02-25 04:11:56

This isn't an OpenOffice-based solution, but you might consider just writing your presentation with s5; you could even write your presentation in Markdown and convert straight to an s5 show with pandoc! Using HTML 5 should make including a video a snap.

broken pipe · 2011-02-25 13:26:26

make sure that all gstreamer packages are installed

fax8 · 2011-02-28 22:09:21

@joyfulgirl Thank you, as I do know HTML+CSS quite well this actually looks a promising path

@broken pine .. I checked .. I should have everything I need.. but no luck with OO and movies so far..

Xappe · 2011-02-28 22:34:31

Another way is to use LaTeX Beamer.
I haven't used embed video in my beamer presentations myself, but iirc the manual for Beamer has a whole section on inserting sound and video in the pdf presentation.

fax8 · 2011-03-19 10:07:50

Thanks Xappe, beamer looks very cool.. but are there pdf reader under linux which can play movies embedded in a pdf presentation?

On the manual it seems that both Okular and xpdf doesn't support them. Any idea?

Awebb · 2011-03-19 10:30:05

You can always install the Adobe Reader. If everything else fails :-)

fax8 · 2011-03-26 11:42:50

It turned out that Okular does supports movies in a PDF presentation made with Latex beamer. Great!

Example code for a slide with a movie:

\frame{\frametitle{FreeIMU on a quadcopter}
\begin{center}
\movie[width=4in, height=2.8in, showcontrols=true]{}{4copter_freeimu.avi}
\end{center}
}

The file "4copter_freeimu.avi" have to be in the same folder of the resulting PDF file.

Thanks everybody for your help!

Arch Linux

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[solved] Presentation with movies

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