Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 115617
Black border around video
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:30:59 UTC
This is a fairly simple one, but critically important - playing an AVI (Cinepak codec, Indeo 5 codec, or even uncompressed) results in a thick black bar around the video. I'm using a Dell 6400 with XP SP3. This has been reported multiple times before (as evidenced by the forums and a prior bug report), but evidently has not been fixed. Workarounds are suggested (disabling hardware acceleration or anti-aliasing), but none work for me. This is an app-killer for me. Every single presentation I've done in the past 7 years has at least one video, and if a package cannot handle video, it's worthless to me. I'm returning to PowerPoint until this gets fixed.
Previous encounter with this bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/383842
The bug you mention deals with a black border around the images in fullscreen mode under linux. Your problem is something completely different (black bar around the video). Please tell me the issue number of the previous reportings and attach a document for reproducing this.
Created attachment 75030 [details] Sample file with sample video clip (see other attachment)
I've attached a sample file (without a video - for some reason your site won't let me upload one to the issue report). The link I gave is the only thing I could find, though there was a similar issue with images posted in a forum somewhere. As I was messing with it, I noticed two things: 1) This applies to *any* video, of any format. Mpg, avi, asf, anything. 2) It's somehow linked to video size. If I drag a video to make it larger, the actual video stays the same size and the black border increases in thickness to compensate. If I reduce the video size by about 30%, the border completely goes away. Note that this is not a *real* workaround - the inability to scale video is a major bug and renders Impress useless to me.
I can confirm this issue with DEV300 m93 on Windows XP SP3. The problem seems to be that the window is not scaled but always played back in its original size. This should be easy to fix and I think it is a regression
Grabbing
Fixed in cws impress210
Please verify. Thanks.
How does one verify? Bear in mind that I'm not a programmer and have no idea how any of this works; I'm just an end user reporting a bug.
Verified in CWS.