Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem viewing embedded videos on Windows

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Mon, 2016-03-28 at 12:15 -0500, anne-ology wrote:
>    Maybe I can help;
> 
>    (1) the best video player I've found to view any of this media
> is
> VLC;
>   this can be found with reviews at the Gizmo's site -
>  http://www.techsupportalert.com
> 
>    for further response, see interspersed below,

Hi,

Thanks for your reply! Yes, playing the videos in VLC works. I was more
interested in finding a solution for less technical users (I'm not a
Windows user myself), and possibly filing bug reports if this was a new
problem. 

Anyway, as I understand it LO on Windows uses DirectShow for video, but
Microsoft no longer uses these filters, so the old adage that if it
works in Windows Media Player it is also supported in LibreOffice isn't
true any longer.

I did make sure to install DirectShow filters for H264 (ffdshow), but
I'm not sure how to make sure that they are working. 

I'm not even sure how well it does work with the filters installed,
there are a lot of "No" on this page:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Media_Support/Windows/Video_Tests


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem viewing embedded videos on Windows

[libreoffice-ml . mbourne]

anne-ology wrote:

(1) the best video player I've found to view any of this media is
VLC;
   this can be found with reviews at the Gizmo's site -
  http://www.techsupportalert.com


The official site for VLC is .

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Problem viewing embedded videos on Windows

[anne-ology]

   Maybe I can help;

   (1) the best video player I've found to view any of this media is
VLC;
  this can be found with reviews at the Gizmo's site -
 http://www.techsupportalert.com

   for further response, see interspersed below,




From: Sven Arvidsson <s...@whiz.se>
Date: Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 7:10 AM
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Problem viewing embedded videos on Windows
To: users@global.libreoffice.org


Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to view embedded mp4 videos in a pptx
presentation on Windows.

   [.mp4 videos can be viewed with VLC;
   if this is located within a PP, then LO's version should open it as
well - although I suspect that maybe it's not a PP video (that x) so
possibly MsFt has again changed their settings to be incompatible]

This works fine with LO 5.1.2 on Debian, but the same version on
Windows only gives me a big black question mark where the video should
be. (Same behaviour with older LO releases).

   [haven't a clue]

Converting the file to odp makes no difference, I also tried
extracting the videos, and they play fine in Windows Media Player, so
codecs doesn't seem to be an issue.

   [how about saving the video to your machine, then opening with VLC]

The videos are H264 with no sound track.

Any help appreciated!

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Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se

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[libreoffice-users] Problem viewing embedded videos on Windows

[Sven Arvidsson]

Hi,

I'm trying to figure out how to view embedded mp4 videos in a pptx
presentation on Windows.

This works fine with LO 5.1.2 on Debian, but the same version on
Windows only gives me a big black question mark where the video should
be. (Same behaviour with older LO releases).

Converting the file to odp makes no difference, I also tried
extracting the videos, and they play fine in Windows Media Player, so
codecs doesn't seem to be an issue.

The videos are H264 with no sound track.

Any help appreciated!

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5




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