Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 6979
Playing MPEG Video via Macro / Full Screen Acess?
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:21:02 UTC
I wrote a little macro (see below) that calls an MPEG player, so I can show movies in presentations; I activate it via an "Interaction" object in my presentation. It works great when I click that object in Drawing Mode: the movie is played full screen. But when I try the same while running the slide show full screen, there is some back and forth, but the movie does not show. When I then exit the show, I find the movie running in a normal X-window. Obviously there is some problem with two processes trying to get full control of the screen. Is there any way around it? A macro command that would allow my macro to switch Impress from FullScreen to Drawing Mode, then run the movie full screen, and return Impress to Full Screen after the movie would do, but I haven't been able to find that in the BASIC manual ("Presentation always on top is OFF"). Help appreciated! Hans ------------------ Sub runxterm(filename As String) Shell("/usr/bin/plaympeg", 10, "--loop --fullscreen " + filename + ".mpg") End Sub
Set to new.
Reassigned to Falko.
typo in summary s/Acess?/Access?
Wrong owner. This is a help request.
Reassigned to Christian.
Hi, For mplayer users this might work better. Also it blocks openoffice until mplayer is finished which prevents problems with openoffice trying to get into the foreground: Sub playmovie(filename As String) Shell("/usr/bin/gmplayer",10,"-fs "+filename,true) End Sub
I can't reproduce the bug. I tested it with mplayer because I didn't find a page where I can download the plaympeg player.
My last comment is from feb 06 and I can't reproduce the bug. Have anybody some additional information how to reproduce the bug? I have to close the issue without more info.
Close as works for me. Please reopen it if you can still reproduce it with the latest stable version (2.2)