[Issue] Embed sound file in a presentation in Impress

[irv]

I am creating presentations with Text and audio slides. I have the slide timed to change when the audio finishes. It all works great up to this point.
The next step I did was to upload the odp file to my server where it can be downloaded to another computer. This also worked.
Now I download it to another computer where the presentations runs but with out sound.
Apparently the sound file is not embedded in the presentation odp file. I have not found a way to embed the sound file, so it must be just inserting a pointer to the sound file and not doing a embed of it.
My question is: Is there a way to actually embed the sound in the odp file and not just point to the sound file?

My OS is Ubuntu 10.04 OpenOffice version is 3.2

[Hagar Delest]

Welcome to the forum!

Sadly, you can't embed such external object, see: Save presentation with sound for other computer.

There is a report for that, the strange thing is that it hasn't any votes yet (you should add 2 votes, I've just voted), and no trace of this issue here neither! See Issue 81753 -Add option to save presentations with all links embedded.

[RoryOF]

A workaround that may work for you is to put your presentation _and_ its video and/or sound files in a dedicated directory, and send this whole directory to the remote machine
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http://ux.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadM ... msgNo=4434

> Note that Impress will only link the media clip, therefore when the
> presentation is moved to a different computer, the link will most likely
> be broken and as a consequence the media clip will not play. An easy
> workaround that prevents this from happening is the following:
>
> 1. Place the media file to be included in the presentation in the
> same folder where the presentation is stored.
> 2. Insert the media file in the presentation.
> 3. When sending the presentation to a different computer, send also
> the media file and place both files in the same folder on the target
> computer.
>

[irv]

Thanks for the replies, this is what I found when reading the PDF manual. I was so hoping that there was a way to embed the sound but now I see it just can't be done.

[Hagar Delest]

You should subscribe and vote for it (up to 2 votes per issue). There was several threads about that here, I can't believe this bug isn't more popular.

[gmolleda]

This issue is same that 16937 (2003): http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=16937

[jwashington]

I have found a really cool web-based alternative called impress.js [https://github.com/bartaz/impress.js/]. Here is a demo: [http://bartaz.github.io/impress.js/]. To add audio include this plugin: [https://github.com/danielsimons1/impress-audio]

[lionelnz]

You should subscribe and vote for it (up to 2 votes per issue). There was several threads about that here, I can't believe this bug isn't more popular.

How do I vote on this issue?

Cheers

Lionel DownUnda

[Hagar Delest]

You've to subscribe Bugzilla and then there is a link in the vote field to cast votes.

[lionelnz]

Thanks Hagar.