Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
Summary: | Embedded movies do not play and loop correctly | ||||||||||||||
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Product: | Impress | Reporter: | fkbreitl <frank.breitling> | ||||||||||||
Component: | viewing | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> | ||||||||||||
Status: | ACCEPTED --- | QA Contact: | |||||||||||||
Severity: | Trivial | ||||||||||||||
Priority: | P3 | CC: | cno, issues | ||||||||||||
Version: | OOO300m5 | ||||||||||||||
Target Milestone: | 3.4.0 | ||||||||||||||
Hardware: | PC | ||||||||||||||
OS: | All | ||||||||||||||
Issue Type: | DEFECT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- | ||||||||||||
Developer Difficulty: | --- | ||||||||||||||
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Description
fkbreitl
2008-08-05 13:55:39 UTC
Created attachment 55565 [details]
Example for movie problems
Created attachment 55566 [details]
movie 1
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movie 2
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movie 3
I reproduced this behavior on Windows XP SP3 with OpenOffice DEV300m29. Method 1: 1. Open the example slideshow in Impress. 2. Start the show with Slide Show -> Slide Show (or F5). - The presentation starts and creates two new windows, each named "ActiveMovie Window", for the videos. The videos play once then stop. The windows remain open. 3. Click on the slide in the presentation area. - The presentation advances the show to the next slide. The video on the second slide opens in a new "ActiveMovie Window" and plays once. The window remains open. Method 2: 1. Open the example slideshow in Impress. 2. Select the "Normal" tab. 3. Select "Slide 1" from the Slides pane on the left. 4. Select the left embedded video (labeled "γ-Schauer"). 5. Click the Play button on the video toolbar near the bottom of the window. - The video plays through once, in place, and appears to try to repeat; the progress trackbar flickers between the start point and end point, but the video remains blank. 6. Click the Stop button on the video toolbar. 7. Select the right video (labeled "Proton-Schauer"). 8. Click the Play button on the video toolbar. - The video plays and repeats continuously. 9. Click the Stop button on the video toolbar. 10. Select "Slide 2" from the Slides pane. 11. Select the embedded video. (This slide only had one video.) 12. Click the Play button on the video toolbar. - The video plays once; the progress trackbar flickers between the start and end points. 13. Click the Stop button on the video toolbar. OpenOffice version: OOo-dev 3.0.0 DEV300m29 (Build:9399) Machine information: Windows XP SP3 Athlon 64 X2, 2.1 GHz 2 GB RAM Nvidia GeForce 8400GS Xvid codec 1.1.3 Created attachment 56209 [details]
videos in ActiveMovie windows
A correction to my above comment: The version of OpenOffice I was using reported "DEV300m29 (Build:9339)" in the About dialog. The download page reported "OOO300_m4". Windows XP ver 5.1.2600 SP3 OOo 3 Beta 2 Embedded movies on the same slide play and loop correctly simultaneously. Movie on the next slide plays and loops correctly. Error may be due to settings or platform. Reassigned. In OpenOffice.org 3.0 Release Candidate 1 (build OOO300_m5) videos still don't loop and additionally appear in a separate ActiveMovie window which is very disturbing and inhibits OpenOffice to be used for showing movie sequences. I think I am seeing the same issue in OO 2.4.1 in Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy, on a Dell D420. This is basically the distro setup--I have hardly used OO Impress before this. Starting from the reporter's examples, I can play the movies--once. They do not loop, although the "Repeat" button appears to be enabled. Reproducible. Reassigned. The "active window problem " is i93797. But the not working of the loop is new. Reassigned. no request on releases yet, main part of the problem addressed by 93797 This issue has not been considered as release blocker. The looping problem still exists on Ubuntu Intrepid with OOO300m9 - to me the lack of looping is the main problem rather than 93797. Any progress? Currently evaluating the loop-problem on different platforms; a target of OOo 3.2 seems to be valid to take into consideration. Problem still exists. Looping does not work :( Running Debian Sid OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 OOO320m19 (Build:9505) ooo-build 3.2.1.3, Debian package 1:3.2.1-1 Hi, guysoft and others, I found a solution: Use Power Point or some other professional software. It's not free, but at least it has the basic functionality working and so will pay off rather soon. OpenOffice is full of bugs and show stoppers. You will notice when you start using it. Bear in mind it is incompatible to Microsoft and you can't switch easily after you have started. Don't wait for the developers to fix important bugs. They won't. I gave up filing OpenOffice bugs long time ago after I noticed it is useless and endless. I got the impression, the developers never use their own software for something serious and don't care about the bug tracker. @fkbreitl Your workaround is NOT a solution because this application you are talking about, does not run on Linux (and BTW has tons of bugs itself). OpenOffice is professional software. Unlike Powerpoint I can actually look at the code myself and repair it. Developers are not the only players in open source software. Some get paid for their work, and they don't have to 'care' about actually using them. The bug report system is only part of the picture. I was hoping some developer might point me to the right direction, and maybe I could actually debug this myself. Guy The ActiveMovie Window issue should have been resolved in the meantime, the looping issue will be addressed with OOo 3.3 on Windows and Linux, together with some other *major* Linux enhancements, everybody working on Linux will really appreciate, I think. More on this soon via the official channels (Blog, feature announcement via mailing list etc.) ... Set target to OOo 3.3 OOo 3.3 is nearly final. I change the target of this issue to OOo 3.x. Please find a solution and set a correct target, if you know when a fix can be integrated. set target to 3.4 Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org". |