Why does OpenOffice.org suck worse than MS Office?

[Mike McMullin]

On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 07:35 +0000, Darryl LeCount wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 03:07 -0400, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> 
> > I don't really need to know right now, but how do you do this?
> > 
> 
> Disclaimer: As I say, I never used Impress before version 2.2 as I had
> no need for it at home, so I'm not sure if this possible on earlier
> versions. 
> 
> Somebody said that playing sounds needs the Java Media Framework and
> that the Ubuntu version is already fitted up for this. I'm not sure if
> this is right, but here's the rundown:
> 
> 1. Set up a new presentation
> 2. Click on the "Insert" menu and select "video and sound".
> 3. Select whichever media file you wish to insert.
> 4. Place it wherever.
> 5. Press F5 to start the slideshow.
> 
> Fairly standard, not to mention identical to the same procedure in
> Powerpoint, so I'm not sure what kind of problem the OP was
> experiencing. Perhaps Java needs  to be installed? I never configured
> Oo.o to do anything special.

  IIRC the OP wanted to have the slide(s) and audio running at the same
time, probably in the form of slide 1 displays while audio is starting
in sync with it, timer counts then slide 2 displays etc.