Am 03.02.2017 um 20:56 schrieb Rory O'Farrell:
Before I raise an issue on Bugzilla, I would like confirmation of the following
problem:
Using AOO 4.1.3 running on Xubuntu 16.04.1 I am not able to get Impress to play embedded
videos. Any attempt to embed an .avi or an .mpg file is blocked by "The format of
the selected file is not supported" message and the file will not insert on the
slide. The .avi and .mpg files play perfectly using the system video player (Parole) or
VLC. From memory this problem occurred with AOO 4.0.0 - I have older presentations
prepared in 2008 in which these embeddings worked correctly, but such presentations do
not play in current AOO 4.1.3. I have tried a number of different .avi and .mpg files,
all to no avail within Impress.
I have checked using the same multimedia files on AOO 4,1.3 running on Windows
XP - they work correctly
My workaround is to insert a hyperlink to the .avi/.mpg files, which calls the
system video player. This is a bit clunky, but at least the videos get shown.
Would other users please confirm if this problem shows up on other linux
versions (please indicate linux distro and version) so that I can post as
detailed an issue as possible on Bugzilla.
https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=30776
IMHO it's the old Java Media Framework issue. In former Sun times the
JMF [1] was choosen for Linux-based OS to manage multimedia files. Maybe
it was decided to use a Java-based implementation instead of a
Linux-native one like gstreamer. But at the end I don't know why. At the
moment it is as it is.
I don't know if the JMF functions are still part of a current JRE. If
not then we have a possible root cause that it is no longer working.
PS:
If you want to know, I'm working on Fedora 25 and AOO 4.1.3.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Media_Framework
Marcus
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