4.0.3.3 (Build ID: 400m0(Build:3)) on Ubuntu 12.10
Trying to include a video in an Impress presentation. You Insert->Movie and Sound, or you use Tools->Media Player. This lets you Open (with or without Link) a file (.avi in my case). The screen goes dim, and gives the impression that things are happening. Then a toolbar appears with a Play button (which looks suspiciously gray), but nothing happens.
Opinions seem to vary as to whether it uses gstreamer or JMF (or both). In recent days I have installed:
- gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg (claims to support every imaginable format)
- openjdk-7-jre
- icedtea-7
- jmf-2_1_1e-linux-i586
That last one is a pain, because it has to be downloaded from Oracle, and is a beast to setup.
I have included in my .profile:
export JMFHOME=/usr/lib/jvm/classes/JMF-2.1.1e
export CLASSPATH=$JMFHOME/lib/jmf.jar:$JMFHOME/lib/sound.jar
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$JMFHOME/lib:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH
and the JMF - Diagnostics Applet produces no complaints. I even tried jmstudio, and I got the sound from my video, but it seemed to want javax before actually showin anything.
But after all that, I can still get nothing running in Impress.
What else do I need to do?