[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 118091] Videos in Impress only show as static image and are not played during presentation

[bugzilla-daemon at bugs.documentfoundation.org]

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118091

--- Comment #3 from Thorsten Behrens (CIB) <thb at libreoffice.org> ---
(In reply to herbert-thomson from comment #2)
> Since I learned that you already have VLC integrated in LibreOffice
> but just disabled during compilation, I ask you to instead fix whatever is
> holding back VLC integration in the official releases (because something
> must still be not solved, otherwise you would have enabled this already,
> right?).
>

Reason for not pursuing the VLC path further:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Media_Support#VLC

TL;DR: VLC does not offer a stable API, and was generally working too
unreliably on windows to build on it.

But let's please keep general feature or architectural discussions out of BZ.
They are on-topic on libreoffice at lists.freedesktop.org

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