[Solved] No sound in pps files under Kubuntu 9.10

[Ptihibou]

With OpenOffice 3.1.1 under Kubuntu 9.10 I have no sound when playing .pps files. Any advice on what to do will be greatly appreciated

[RoryOF]

Do you have sound when playing such files outside of Impress? Sound is allegedly quite iffy under Ubuntu.

[Ptihibou]

I cannot test it on Windows as I got rid of Windows for good this time but sound is OK on other applications such as Skype, Kmplayer, Amarok, VLC, etc. A friend of mine told me that he had no problems with sound on pps files under OpenSuse 1.2 but Ubuntu, and Kubuntu is a different story.

[Hagar Delest]

I managed once to play some sounds but I had to install the JMF (Java Media Framework). NB: I use the Sun version, not sure if it is compatible with the Ubuntu one (to install the Sun version, see [Ubuntu] Installing OOo on Debian and Co.).

[RGB]

I cannot test it on Windows as I got rid of Windows for good this time but sound is OK on other applications such as Skype, Kmplayer, Amarok, VLC, etc. A friend of mine told me that he had no problems with sound on pps files under OpenSuse 1.2 but Ubuntu, and Kubuntu is a different story.

As kubuntu's OOo is based on go-oo, it use gstreamer for multimedia but none of the other programs you mentioned use gstreamer so they do not represent a good test
Try installing all gstreamer plugins (they have silly names like "good", "bad" and "ugly"... someone out there likes spaghetti western...)

[Ptihibou]

I first tried to install the JMF Studio version 2.1.1e. I followed the instructions given in http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wik ... _Framework. I was able to install it up to a point. When I tried to install the mp3 Javadecoder com.sun.media.codec.audio.mp3.JavaDecoder I could not add it and got the terminal outputs "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException". I nevertheless added the jmf.jar in the class path options of OpenOffice. The pps file did run with no sound.

I then followed the last advice and installed the various gstreamer plug ins and surprise, surprise, it works !!

Thanks a lot for your help, it made my day