Issue 36401 - Insert Video does not work in OOo 1.9.m58 for Linux
Summary: Insert Video does not work in OOo 1.9.m58 for Linux
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 34161
Alias: None
Product: Impress
Classification: Application
Component: editing (show other issues)
Version: 680m58
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P2 Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: ooo
QA Contact: issues@graphics
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Keywords: oooqa
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Reported: 2004-10-31 07:02 UTC by zingale
Modified: 2013-08-07 15:21 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description zingale 2004-10-31 07:02:38 UTC 
I updated to the latest OOo development snapshot today (1.9.m58) and tried to
insert video into a new presentation.  I am greeted with an error message saying
that it is not a support file type.  No movies I try seem to work.  All of them
play just fine with mplayer and through mozilla with mplayerplug-in.
Comment 1 zingale 2004-11-01 04:04:13 UTC 
I just tried the same, after installing Mozilla plugger instead of
mplayerplug-in, and I get the same errors.  None of the file formats are
recognized.  If I launch the media player separately (from the tools menu), I
get the same problems.

Is there additional configuration that is necessary that is not documented?
Comment 2 thackert 2004-11-01 09:22:38 UTC 
The same here with SuSE 9.1 and OOo-1.9.58. So I can confirm this issue. I have
tried avi, mov and mpg files, all resulting in an error message ... :(
Comment 3 flibby05 2004-11-02 10:09:03 UTC 
.. so setting issue status to NEW
Comment 4 wolframgarten 2004-11-04 11:53:49 UTC 
Reassigned to Kai. Can you please add some comment her? Thanks in advance.
Comment 5 ooo 2004-11-04 12:35:11 UTC 
According to the spec at
http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/media_player/MediaPlayer.sxw
you have to install the JavaMedia Framework (JMF) and set the classpath within
OOo accordingly.On Unix systems we have only a JMF based backend at the moment
which may not be able to play some formats that other media players support.
Please take a look at the JMF documentation for supported formats. With current
development snapshots of OOo (including m58) you may also get a GPF after
inserting a media file and JMF installed. This is related to #i34161 and will
work after the integration of CWS vcl28. Resolving this issue as duplicate.

BTW: there's been no official announcement of this new feature till now, so this
is still work in progress...

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 34161 ***
Comment 6 ooo 2004-11-04 14:58:13 UTC 
closed
Comment 7 opoplawski 2005-05-03 16:16:12 UTC 
Some comments:

- What on earth does this bug have to do with 34161?

- There appear to be two ways to handle movies, the "old" Insert Object->Movie
and using mplayerplug-in (and or mozilla plugger I guess) and the "new" Java
Media Framework.  Will both be supported going forward?  JMF appears to be quite
limited, and the mplayer support is still quite buggy, so both need work.