Bug 46257

Summary:	Custom Animation timings are unpredictable and do not provide reasonable entrance timing of custom animation elements.
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Saul Rosenberg <srosenberg>
Component:	Impress	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	major	CC:	LibreOffice, sasha.libreoffice
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.5.0 release
Hardware:	x86-64 (AMD64)
OS:	Linux (All)
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Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Attachments:	Sample Document

Description Saul Rosenberg 2012-02-18 10:09:32 UTC

To start off with,  I was using OpenOffice Impress in Debian, where I set up all the custom animation timings.  These timings were based on an audio time-line that was created in Audacity. All these timings were correct, predictable in OpenOffice, and ran perfectly.  Recently I installed Linux Mint 12 after getting new hardware which came with LibreOffice.  Now when I run the presentation the timings are not only off, but they are unpredictable to the point where I can't tweak them within a reasonable range of what the audio is describing.  This is  something that got hosed between the OpenOffice code and LibreOffice. 

When I go to take all the timings out, and use the manual click method to manually advance the custom animations, sometimes the click registers, sometimes it does not, and sometimes it brings up two custom animation elements and gets ahead of the audio.

This does not make for a clean presentation, and should be fixed immediately.  The fix is somewhere in the OpenOffice ooo-build 3.2.1.4 code base as it worked then.  Please repair this.

Comment 1 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2012-02-23 21:59:58 UTC

NOT reproducible with "LibreOffice 3.5.0 German UI/Locale [Build-ID: 7e68ba2-a744ebf-1f241b7-c506db1-7d53735] on German WIN7 Home Premium (64bit). A small simple sample presentation plays a little more than 70 seconds in OOo 3.3. and LibO 3.5.0

@srosenberg@planphoria.com:
Unfortunately this can't be fixed without more information, currently we have not sufficient knowledge concerning your presentation. We need something like "Audacity sound duration 19s, starts with first slide, play 4 slides each 5s, so sound should finish 1s before change to slide 5, but sound still has not finished, I checked, will play 22s in LibO presentation" (or similar). 

May be hints on <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport> will help you to find out what information will be useful to reproduce your problem? If you believe that that  is really sophisticated please as for Help on a user mailing list
Please:
- Write a meaningful Summary describing exactly what the problem is
- Attach a sample document (not only screenshot)
- Attach screenshots with comments if you believe that that might explain the 
  problem better than a text comment. Best way is to insert your screenshots
  into a DRAW document and to add comments that explain what you want to show
- Contribute a step by step instruction containing every key press and every 
  mouse click how to reproduce your problem (due to example in Bug 43431)
– if possible contribute an instruction how to create a sample document 
  from the scratch
- add information 
  -- what EXACTLY is unexpected
  -- and WHY do you believe it's unexpected (cite Help or Documentation!)
  -- concerning your PC (video card, ...)
  -- concerning your OS (Version, Distribution, Language)
  -- concerning your LibO localization (UI language, Locale setting)
  –- Libo settings that might be related to your problems 
    (video hardware acceleration ...)
  -- how you launch LibO and how you opened the sample document
  -- everything else crossing your mind after you read linked texts

Even  if you can not provide all demanded information, every little new information might bring the breakthrough.

Please submit a separate bug for your "does not reegister click" problem, that's something completely different.

Comment 2 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2012-02-23 22:08:45 UTC

Created attachment 57573 [details]
Sample Document

See comment 1

Comment 3 sasha.libreoffice 2012-04-03 07:01:52 UTC

@ Saul Rosenberg
Thanks for bugreport
Please, attach sample odp file that demonstrates this problem, and tell: name of videocard vendor and name of driver of video
Also, try change Tools->Options->LibreOffice->View, field "Use hardware acceleration" and tell result

Comment 4 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2013-04-06 07:09:32 UTC

Not reproducible due to comment 1, closing Bug due to reporter's inactivity as INVALID due to lacking information.

@reporter:
Please feel free to reopen this bug if you find out that the problem still exists with the current stable LibreOffice version and if you can contribute requested additional information due to <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport> (especially BugReport Details)!