I have a college project in which I have to run powerpoint on a Linux system, preferably with all of the options owrking. Has anyone managed to get sound and video working in PowerPoint 2007? I have installed it using winetricks and am running wine 1.1.3.2 because this is the only version i've been able to get MS Office 2007 running. I'm using the desktop release of Ubuntu 9.10 Thanks! [Wink]
roderakker wrote:> I have a college project in which I have to run powerpoint on a Linux system, preferably with all of the options owrking. Has anyone managed to get sound and video working in PowerPoint 2007? I have installed it using winetricks and am running wine 1.1.3.2 because this is the only version i've been able to get MS Office 2007 running. I'm using the desktop release of Ubuntu 9.10 > > Thanks! [Wink]No winetricks are needed to install Office 2007. If you have used any, that may well be the source of your problem. Upgrade to 1.1.40, delete or rename your ~/wine, and reinstall. Once the install is complete, set an override for riched20. Do not install it with winetricks--Office installs its own riched20, but the override needs to be set. See the Powerpoint AppDB entry for other tweaks, including one you may need to play mp3 sound. http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=12813 Inserting video files does not work. For playing video, mpg files are known not to work: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16485
roderakker wrote:> i meant if you would suggest winetricks, or the hard way. sorry for my doublepost, why is there no edit button? [Laughing]First make sure sound is working in Wine in general. The workaround in the AppDB is specifically for mp3-crippled distro packages, and assumes your sound is otherwise properly set up. As for which method to use to install the codec, if you have access to a Windows install, copying the file over is the easier method, as installing WMP9 is a buggy process, even with winetricks. However, since you want video, too, you may need the core WMP9 dlls anyway. I have not tested video embedded in Powerpoint; I do know that Powerpoint relies on the WMP engine, and WMP9 will play wmv files, and xvid avi files (if xvid is installed), but not mpg/mpeg files. Editing is disabled because the forum is linked to the mailing list, and mailing list users don't get edits.