I am running openSUSE 11.4 with kde 4.6.0 and cannot get any sound when running LO Presentation files. The presentation files all have sound and/or background music and work well in both ‘Windoze’ and in PCLinuxOS. I am running these files on a laptop with ATI SB ALC 268 sound which is working ok.
I have considered that it might be an LO version difference SUSE is 3.3 PCLInuxOS is 3.4 but the change logs I can locate, do not indicate any change that would have an influence!
Does anyone have any idea or suggestions to solve this issue?
I would appreciate the help.
Thanks for the response.
They are all .pps powerpoint originally and they do play ok in other systems (PCLoS, Mint and Fedora) that I have tried!
Any other ideas?
The audio track is likely to be mp3 as it is a compressed format. Does your system play mp3 audio? I have lo 3.3.1 and this fixed a problem in an earlier version of openoffice (the gooo version and not the Sun/Oracle version which did not have the problem) which did not play sound in pps files. I have a lot of pps files that work as they should and play sound as the slide show automatically progresses. I have one or two that play sound on the first slide, the slide show does not run automatically and the sound stops if you click to move to the next slide. One displays a hole where a button should be.
I do not have 11.4 and I do not know which version of lo you are running. If it is a higher level of lo than 3.3.1 then there is always a possibility that the bad gooo code has reappeared in lo but as I don’t have 11.4 and it’s version of lo, I can’t test it.
I have lo 3.3.1 also and with further ‘research’ I now believe that the problem is related to java base. An earlier version of open SUSE does play the files and it uses (used) the Sun Java 1.5 code however the 11.4 version of SUSE uses the open JDK code and, according to a few 'knowledgeable" friends the Sun Java code had Alsa support but openJDK does not!!
If this info is correct it might explain the problem.
I agree, Impress doesn’t impress me either but, when you’ve got a lot of good .pps files. . . . . . .!!
Thanks again for your input.
After some searching I found that LibreOffice does indeed use Java for sound in presentations.
I think your problem can easily be solved by replacing openJDK with sun java. The Quick Java Switch and Fix
BTW, one of the goals of LibreOffice is to reduce the dependency.
I have tried the replacement “Java switch and fix” but that does not work. Libreoffice tells me that it needs a different JRE and after working on that and resetting everything, I still could not get it to work.
According to the 3.4.2 release notes Release Notes LibreOffice has indeed switched to OpenJDK; so if there is no ALSA support in OpenJDK, that may be the problem.
