When opening a PPTX file that was created in PowerPoint and contains a link to an external video on Youtube, this triggers a crash when moving to the corresponding slide in Presentation Mode on Linux with the qt6 VCL plugin. Steps to reproduce: 1) start LO with the qt6 VCL plugin on Linux 2) open the attached sample file 3) press F5 to start Presentation mode 4) click right arrow key to move to slide 2 that contains the video -> Crash When using the gen or gtk3 VCL plugin, the crash doesn't occur. Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: b417954503efe6f61c42f9d5991148b80ffa3e44 CPU threads: 32; OS: Linux 6.12; UI render: default; VCL: qt6 (cairo+wayland) Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded
Created attachment 199965 [details] Sample file to reproduce the crash
Pending fix: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/183228
Michael Weghorn committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/b1576ba17a4111f02fc6f8e27c09c78dbd7fd963 tdf#165870 qt avmedia: Handle null media player It will be available in 25.8.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.