Impress 6 in ubuntu 18.04: video playback only as full screen

[HFord]

I am using Impress 6.0.4.2 in ubuntu 18.04. When I embed a video and then put the presentation on slideshow, any slide with a video immediately starts playing the video fullscreen, rather than in the slide.

Based on googling through forums, I have been trying to make sure all gstreamer plugins are installed, but don’t know if something is still missing. Or maybe it is something else entirely.

Any help would be appreciated!

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Below are the results of $ dpkg -l | grep gstreamer

ii gir1.2-gstreamer-1.0 1.14.0-1 amd64 GObject introspection data for the GStreamer library

ii gstreamer1.0-alsa:amd64 1.14.0-2ubuntu1 amd64 GStreamer plugin for ALSA

ii gstreamer1.0-clutter-3.0:amd64 3.0.26-1 amd64 Clutter PLugin for GStreamer 1.0

ii gstreamer1.0-fluendo-mp3:amd64 0.10.32.debian-1 amd64 Fluendo mp3 decoder GStreamer 1.0 plugin

ii gstreamer1.0-gl:amd64 1.14.0-2ubuntu1 amd64 GStreamer plugins for GL

ii gstreamer1.0-libav:amd64 1.14.0-1 amd64 libav plugin for GStreamer

ii gstreamer1.0-packagekit 1.1.9-1ubuntu2 amd64 GStreamer plugin to install codecs using PackageKit

ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad:amd64 1.14.0-1ubuntu1 amd64 GStreamer plugins from the “bad” set

ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-base:amd64 1.14.0-2ubuntu1 amd64 GStreamer plugins from the “base” set

ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-base-apps 1.14.0-2ubuntu1 amd64 GStreamer helper programs from the “base” set

ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-good:amd64 1.14.0-1ubuntu1 amd64 GStreamer plugins from the “good” set

ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-ugly:amd64 1.14.0-1 amd64 GStreamer plugins from the “ugly” set

ii gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio:amd64 1.14.0-1ubuntu1 amd64 GStreamer plugin for PulseAudio

ii gstreamer1.0-tools 1.14.0-1 amd64 Tools for use with GStreamer

ii gstreamer1.0-vaapi:amd64 1.14.0-1 amd64 VA-API plugins for GStreamer

ii gstreamer1.0-x:amd64 1.14.0-2ubuntu1 amd64 GStreamer plugins for X11 and Pango

ii libgstreamer-gl1.0-0:amd64 1.14.0-2ubuntu1 amd64 GStreamer GL libraries

ii libgstreamer-plugins-bad1.0-0:amd64 1.14.0-1ubuntu1 amd64 GStreamer libraries from the “bad” set

ii libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-0:amd64 1.14.0-2ubuntu1 amd64 GStreamer libraries from the “base” set

ii libgstreamer-plugins-good1.0-0:amd64 1.14.0-1ubuntu1 amd64 GStreamer development files for libraries from the “good” set

ii libgstreamer1.0-0:amd64 1.14.0-1 amd64 Core GStreamer libraries and elements

ii libreoffice-avmedia-backend-gstreamer 1:6.0.4~rc2-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 amd64 GStreamer backend for LibreOffice

[marius311]

I can confirm I have the same problem with LibreOffice 6.0.3 on Ubuntu 18.04. This problem was not present with LIbreOffice 5.X on Ubuntu 16.04.

[vs18]

I have the same issue. LibreOffice 6.0.3.2 on Ubuntu 18.04. Also did not have this problem before the update.

[PèreOrval]

I can confirm this problem using Linux Mint 19.1 and LO 6.0.3.2. Even when one wants to re-scale the frame where the video is embedded in, a full screen is temporarily shown. The worst thing is that the full screen is shown both on the presentation-screen and on the computer-screen. In this way the notes and the buttons on the computer-screen are no longer visible/usable. I’m using back the work-around by embedding a reference into an image. Clicking on the image starts vlc.

[riveale]

Hi, I solved this on Ubuntu 18.04.

Based on bug report from red hat 1409401 – ooimpress not playing videos properly
I think some functions/plugins necessary were moved around, so I just installed gstreamer plugins until I found the one that worked.

Easiest is
sudo apt-get install gstreamer1.0-plugins-*

Most likely candidate is the GTK3 or QT5 packages, or one of the GTK/QT plugins.

Best,
Richard.

[metal3d]

Wow,that was my problem and solution. Gstreamer plugins… it now can embed videos without a problem. As Gifs are badly supported, I can now ffmpeg -i mygif -y out.webm and insert the video.
Thanks a lot for that

[JackRabbit]

Hi.

I had the same problem, and others related to TexMath.
I found the answer in this forum:
https://sourceforge.net/p/texmaths/bugs/100/

The problem seems to be with bugs in GTK3 interface. The solution is to go back to GTK2:

sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-gtk3

sudo apt-get install libreoffice-gtk2

That’s it!

[jjgomez]

This worked for me, thanks!

[avishek]

this worked for me too, you’re awesome!

[fenixjose]

also worked for me. Thank you.

[steve_s]

had the same problem on libreoffice 6.0.7.3 running on linux mint 19.3 cinnamon. This solution solved it. thanks

[CarlosRRPA]

Hi. I solved it with:
sudo apt install gstreamer1.0-gtk3
using Xubuntu 18.04

Greetings from Mendoza.

[pietakio]

This is effectively the accepted answer. Although I lack sufficient karma to even upvote answers, this verifiably works and is substantially simpler than alternate approaches. Clearly, Debian and/or Ubuntu package maintainers should add gstreamer1.0-gtk3 as a mandatory dependency of the libreoffice-gtk3 package. Would someone who is not me mind submitting a Launchpad issue against this package? This ASCII art adequately summarizes my current feelings: ¯\(ツ)/¯