[libreoffice-users] Re: Adding Videos to Impress Presentation Not Possible

With mine I need to do Insert - Audio or Video.
Then it places the video on the slide, but I have no way to play it.
http://www.mflan.com/temp/vid.png

So inserting an image works fine, but not a video.


Mike


On 5/6/22 23:08, users+help@global.libreoffice.org wrote:
> Subject:
> [libreoffice-users] Adding Videos to Impress Presentation Not Possible
> From:
> 7mrbka4b@duck.com
> Date:
> 5/6/22, 10:40
>
> To:
> users@global.libreoffice.org
>
>
> Hi everyone!
>
> I've migrated to Linux a couple months ago and have continued to enjoy Libre Office:)
>
> However, I can't figure out why Impress won't let me add videos to my presentation. I couldn't find 
> a solution to the problem by looking it up.
>
> Here's what happens:
> I go to slide where I want the video to appear in
> Select Insert
> Select Video
> [File Navigator opens] I navigate to the video file and select Open
> Nothing happens, not even an error message is displayed:(
> What I've tried to fix it:
> Drag-and-drop
> Dropping a .mp4 file into the slide displays a square with a music note in it, not the actual 
> video. Nothing happens when starting the presentation.Create OLE object from file
> After selecting the video file, two error messages appear (finally!)
> "Permission to [path of file] denied"
> This confuses me, because inserting images, for example, works just fine (also true for images 
> located in the same folder where the videos are located)
> "Object from file [path of file] couldn't be inserted"The folder I'm using is actually a syslink, 
> so I tried copying the video file to my desktop first and then inserting it into the presentation
> Different file formats (mp4, m4v, webm)
> Inserting GIFs results in only one frame of them being shown (nothing happens when starting the 
> presentation either), although I'm not sure if Impress has the capability to display GIFs.
> I'm running...- Linux Mint 20.3 (with Cinnamon 5.2.7)
> - Linux Kernel: 5.4.0-109-generic
>
> Thank you for trying to help!


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