Bug 166286 - When inserting a video file, it is not scaled down to slide (or smaller) dimenions
Summary: When inserting a video file, it is not scaled down to slide (or smaller) dime...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Impress (show other bugs)
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25.2.2.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium minor
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Keywords: needsUXEval
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Blocks: Media-Playback
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Reported: 2025-04-21 18:47 UTC by Eyal Rozenberg
Modified: 2025-04-22 22:46 UTC (History)
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Description Eyal Rozenberg 2025-04-21 18:47:50 UTC
To reproduce:

1. Obtain a video of dimensions 1920x1080
2. Use Impress on a monitor with resolution 1920x1080
3. Create a new presentation
4. Run the "Insert Audio or Video" UNO command (it's not on the menus; but see bug 166285 about putting it in Insert > Media)
5. Choose your video file.

Expected result:
Video object rectangle fits the entire slide, or an area smaller than the entire slide (e.g. size of content area, or the maximum integer multiple scale-down factor which fits the slide, or the maximum power-of-two scale-down factor which fits the slide).

Actual result:
Video object rectangle far exceeds slide dimensions (e.g. about 1.8x width).
Comment 1 Heiko Tietze 2025-04-22 07:59:51 UTC
Sounds reasonable although auto-scaling would obfuscate the original size.
Comment 2 Eyal Rozenberg 2025-04-22 22:46:13 UTC
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #1)
> Sounds reasonable although auto-scaling would obfuscate the original size.

Why would the original size be meaningful on a slide? You can't see anything in its original size in a slideshow.

And - we scale images to slide dimensions as the bounding rectangle, when inserting them - so how can it be different for videos?