Am doing a Power Point presentation about Linux.

[Sleeping Dog]

AHAHAAHAAHAHAAHAAH Calum!

I did not realize that you were cunning-lingual.

GOT A GOOD ONE FOR THE POWERPOINT RANGERS TO TRY

Using the latest and greatest version of PowerPoint, try inserting a specified 3 minute DVD selection into your presentation.....you know, where you have the DVD in your box and you tell PowerPoint to play that selection when it gets to a specified slide.  It must be a clip longer that 1 1/2 minutes.  (Lets say it's a DVD clip that you burned from your sister's Prom video, or something like that.)

You would think that this should work without having to convert the clip into some other format.....you know....just have it play the specified selection from your onboard DVD player.

Please let me know when you get to the point of pulling your hair out, or if you actually made it work.

Can OpenOffice or StarOffice do this successfully.  I would love to know.

Cheers and Beers

Sleeping Dog

[Calum]

well i once made a powerpoint presentation containing a normal 30 second mpeg clip and it would only work in windows/powerpoint97. would not work in powerpoint 2000 or openoffice.org 1.0

not entirely compatible then, even with itself.

[Sleeping Dog]

One of my clients paid Microslut 35 bucks for their so-called "Help Line" to get this PowerPoint DVD question answered.  They were told that this was a "professional" question and it would cost 250 bucks for help in resolving it.  Sounds to me like Microsoft generates additional revenue by sabotaging their own products.

Sleeping Dog

[Bazoukas]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA Calum.


 i just saw it and i cant stop laughingLOLOLOLOL

  Dont mind me. i havent been to greece for 7 years now, so its kinda nice sometimes to tpe in greek     i promise i wont do it often  

 


 BTW any of you guys want to see my PP presentation?
  It kicks ass.

[Calum]

quote:Originally posted by bazoukas:

 BTW any of you guys want to see my PP presentation?
  It kicks ass.

oh well no in that case, if it kicks ass! i only want to see it if it SUCKS!!!  

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by bazoukas:
BTW any of you guys want to see my PP presentation?
  It kicks ass.

I would like to see it.  And you mentioned that it didn't work with kpresenter which is a "KOffice" app.  Well how about with OpenOffice (simpress)? I use it to open PPT files all the time...

If you feel froggy and are willing to email it to me you can email it to me at my linuxmail.org address. I'm "voidmain" at (@) that mail server.

[ September 12, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

[Bazoukas]

excellemunto  
 I am at class now, when I go at home later the afternnon i will email it to you VoidMan.

  I Downladed Open Office but I had a problem with a cliper lib i think, and i didnt have time to search for it with midterms and all that.

[KernelPanic]

me too bazoukas:

tux@(REMOVETHIS)mesclan.tk


[ September 12, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

[Pantso]

I'd love to see it too! I'll PM you with my e-mail address    . Keep it so that we can keep in touch later  

[Calum]

well i would like to see it too, if that's okay, i was just being sarcastic there. if you don't mind, pls also email to calum @ linuxmail.org please!

(i don't mind posting my email address since if anybody sends me SPAM, i'll just block their email address...)

[ October 05, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

[voidmain]

If you cleverly post your email address you will only get spammed by people reading the forum. If you post you email in tact it will be grabbed by the spam bots and you'll never be able to keep up...

[Gooseberry Clock]

http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/

[voidmain]

Good link RRS! It would be cool if every web server ran a copy of that. I might just write my own version...

[Master of Reality]

sending your email in a pm (still not in a real format) would stop anyone but the person you sent it to from emailing you.

[Master of Reality]

holy shit... i just looked at Wpoison, i am gonna put that shit on my webserver.