Created attachment 159522 [details] History of GIF Version: 6.3.5.2 (x64) Build ID: dd0751754f11728f69b42ee2af66670068624673 CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: GL; VCL: win; Locale: en-US (en_US); UI-Language: en-US Calc: CL Drag and Drop an MP4 file into an impress slide. It should play like any other animation. Maybe with some controls. Short MP4 files like 10 sec might just play like GIF. You remember those, right. The 32 year old format that IMPRESS does support. How about something modern for animations? APNG, MP4, you know, something defined in the last 10 freaking years? AND SUPPORTING FULL COLOR. It's a bug that these are not supported. Thanks a ton.
Created attachment 159523 [details] MP4 History MP4 is not that old. Support it too
Created attachment 159524 [details] APNG history Can't we support this old format with full color in this modern era?
So you really compared a gif (image format) with mp4 format (a video container format) which can include lots of codecs then you're talking about apng which is unrelated to MP4. Stop complaining, if that's so easy, go ahead and propose a patch. If you're not a coder, pay someone for a patch or stay away from LO and pay/crack MsOffice, whatever.
Yes I'm comparing them all. In this day of modern multi-gigahertz machines, all those are just "Animations". Ok sure, putting "Starwars the Last Wookie" movie in a slide show might be a problem, but a 10 or 30 second animation as an MP4 file should not be hard on anybody's memory or processor these days. And are you really arguing that the modern high color format called APNG should not have been supported a long time ago? So prove me wrong.
Oh, and I'm busy coding around another missing feature in Impress. Impress always shows the last black screen and needs a mouse click when a slide show finishes, so I wrote a program to click the mouse to end a show. So there. I'm complaining about this issue, and reporting the bug here, because I'm busy writing a workaround for another issue. I'm trying to be nice here. Please leave my bug open for some others to consider. Thanks so much for your consideration.
MP4 is a container format. It can contain audio and video encoded with various codecs. Ensure you have the codecs available, perhaps install https://github.com/Nevcairiel/LAVFilters/releases The media controls are in the Sidebar Properties tab.
Interesting about needing codecs. VLC player has no problem playing the MP4 that I tried to embed in Impress. So not sure why I would need other codecs. Doesn't VLC use the same system codecs as LibreOffice would use?
(In reply to windyplayer from comment #7) > Interesting about needing codecs. VLC player has no problem playing the MP4 > that I tried to embed in Impress. So not sure why I would need other codecs. > Doesn't VLC use the same system codecs as LibreOffice would use? No, VLC comes with its own codecs. There was even a student project many years ago with the aim of LibreOffice taking advantage of VLC, if it was installed. Unfortunately the project did not fully reach its goal.