Is there a video format that works across platforms for impress?

[rmcilvaine]

Hi.

I use Libreoffice at the two churches I serve for all documents, presentations and spread sheets. I do so because it is great software and it is available cross platform. On my computer I use Linux Mint 17 on an Acer Aspire 5534. At one church there is an HP notebook computer running on Windows Vista. The other church has a new HP desktop computer running Windows 7. All computers are running Libreoffice and VLC. When I embed a video into a slide on my computer it will usually work on one of the two church computers, but not both. I’ve tried MP4 and once I got an AVI file to work on all three, but not today. All three computers will readily play the file in VLC but not in Impress. So I have to run it from a hyper link. So unprofessional.

Does anyone have suggestions on how to make this work?

[oweng]

MP4 is not a video format it is a container format. Please do not conflate file extensions with file formats. The audio+video streams in an MP4 can be encoded using many diiferent algorithms.

[ROSt53]

I recommend to have a look at following links:

Which video formats could be inserted into impress slide?

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What video formats does LibreOffice Impress support?

I had an mp4 video file that wouldn’t work. It said that the video was not compatible. I converted it to a Windows movie file, and it allowed me to put it in my presentation. When I viewed it in presentation mode however, it crashed my LibreOffice. I was wondering what formats are supported to avoid having to randomly convert to formats that I am not sure will work. Thank you for your help. I am using 64 bit Windows 7 Home Premium.

Embed video into a LibreOffice Impress presentation

There is also a bug report you can read:
https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62408

[oweng]

The second link is the key one. Only audio+video codec combinations supported by all the platform-dependent libraries indicated will allow playback on all platforms.