Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 62726
Inserting a video does not embed the File when saved
Last modified: 2023-06-17 18:05:01 UTC
Hi. We have been using OO 1.1.5. very successfully to create documents with pictures and videos embedded. I have loaded OO 2.0.1 but can't get the document to actually embed the video file in the saved document so that we can email etc. I have tried 1. Insert/Movie and Sound 2. Insert/Insert Object/Movie (which causes an error on saving), and 3. Drag and drop from a folder. They all appear to place the movie in the document, and it plays, but when you save the document (if you can - see 2 above) it is not embeded which means we can't email the document etc. The emailed document just has a placeholder and a question mark when you open it, and when you look at the size of the file it is obvious the movie data is not included (a 3.2Mb MPEG movie inserted gives a 68Kb file when saved) I have quicktime installed on my machine.
I can confirm the described 2.0.1 behavior on Windows with an MPG and with both .odt and .odp files. Can someone else confirm the OOo 1.1.5 behavior, so we can mark this as a regression? Embedding video, especially in .odp, is very important.
MRU->WG: does this work as designed?
I have talked to the developer and he told me that the office is able to embed pictures but not movies or videos and that it never was able to. So I change this issue to enhancement and reassign it. I would be very interested to see a 1.1.5 document with an embedded movie.
Created attachment 34717 [details] OOo 1.1.3 with embedded mpg as OLE (plays externally)
*** Issue 84147 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I do not agree that this should be an enhancement! A file should be embeddable in a document, because a document should be distributable for use by anyone, under the OpenDocument standard. Styles are embedded for this reason, as are pictures. What makes it unnecessary for movie and sound files to follow the same design? Users expect to embed these files, and I expected mine to be embedded in 2.3.1 and then 2.4.0. when it was not, I checked the Links option in the Edit window, and no links were listed. If the file is linked in, that should be indicated in the Links dialog. No link, and no embedded file either. This is a bug.
*** Issue 62726 has been confirmed by votes. ***
I agree this is a problem especially in Impress Prasanna
If this issue is less important for Writer, it's very important for Impress. We often use video in presentation. André Cotte
I have the same problem with sounds ?
Same problem has Impress. When I have made presentation with OGG sound for each page, and saved it, then move to new folder/pc - the sounds had lost. If move folder with odp and with sounds in subfolder it works, but need to know how to do it. And it not comfortable to use.
It is also necessary to Impress
for impress a must (as option when saving the file or when inserting the file)
I am experiencing difficulty with transcription process when I try to transfer a video clip into a word document. The video clip in question is 152MB, or 27 minutes in length. Is there a size limitation for doing such activity? Thank you.
Embed media files is an enhancement already reported *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of issue 16937 ***