Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 19134
unable to embed video in OpenOffice.org Impress presentations
Last modified: 2007-05-30 14:56:36 UTC
Hi, I am using OOo 1.1rc3 on Redhat Linux 8.0. I have installed mplayer 0.90 and the mplayer-plugin 0.8, and confirmed that the plugin is working properly through Mozilla (1.3). Without any intervention on my part, the Insert/Object/Video menu item is now active -- to me this indicates that it is finding the mplayer plugin. I have tried to insert video using this menu item, and a box with a puzzle-piece image briefly appears, followed by a box containing the words 'starting plugin /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/' with the rest cutoff (this is in Draw mode). If I switch to presentation mode, I see a brieft stopwatch icon, followed by the same box, with the words `starting plugin /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so'. No video ever appears. Has anyone be able to embed video into OO Impress presentations? This is all that is missing from OO for me, and most of my colleagues. Mike Zingale
I added logfile=$HOME/mplayerplug-in.log debug=1 to ~/.mplayer/mplayerplug-in.conf and got a 68000 line debug logfile from creating a new, blank presentation, inserting a video, and switching to the presentation (full screen mode). In this file, only 21 of the 68000 lines are unique: Exiting SetWindow Hey we got a new window! old: 0x0 new 0x4200009 in destroy stream In NPP_Destroy New, full mode 2 NewStream Requested NP_ASFILEONLY NPP 1076569592 Set Window Size: 0 0 4200009 Size: 100x100 Size: 289x289 Size: 300x300 Size: 570x570 Size: 581x581 State 1 Mode:2 This 1076569952 This->state 1 This Window: 0x4200009 URL: (null) The most interesting is the last, URL: (null). I don't understand how OOo passes information to the plug-in, but since it seems that openoffice is starting the plug-in, is it possible that the name of the movie is not being properly passed? As I said above, this configuration works fine with Mozilla. Mike
Reassigned to Christian. Please have a look.
I think this is also known issue, and duplicated, but I dont know the number. This is also happend in windows
You are right. This issue is duplicate to issue 18625. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 18625 ***
I reopen the issue to change the duplicate bug ID
Duplicate to issue 18652 *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 18652 ***
change the target
Issue 12911 describes "patches" to these problems
This issue is duplicate to issue 18652 which is duplicate to issue 12911. Issue 12911 is closed as fixed therefore I close this issue too. Please reopen it if the bug still occures in a version later then 680m33 (OOo2.0)
Still a problem with OOo 2.2. I am using OOo version 2.2.0 on Windows XP, both in Norwegian versions. Some videos will show like they should, others disappear and yet others just makes OOo hang when attempting to play. There doesn't seem to be a connection between the error and either file type, size, or special characters in the source file name. (I have tried avi and mpeg, with go and no-go results from both types) Works OK when using a link to external file instead of embedding the video. This may indicate that the internal media player has something to do with the problem (or is that just a wrapper?). Others have reported similar problems on different constellations: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=56062