LibreOffice Impress crashes when playing video

Greetings!

After update of ffmpeg to version 1.0 LibreOffice Impress crashes when trying to play videos. I have the following terminal output:

libva: VA-API version 0.33.0
libva: va_getDriverName() returns 0
libva: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so
libva: Found init function __vaDriverInit_0_33
libva error: /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so init failed
libva: va_openDriver() returns -1

ERROR: Caught a segmentation fault while loading plugin file:
/usr/lib64/gstreamer-0.10/libgstffmpeg.so

Please either:

  • remove it and restart.
  • run with --gst-disable-segtrap --gst-disable-registry-fork and debug.

It seems to me that libva issues are not the cause of crash. I’ve tried to play the same files in vlc, got the same libva-related messages, but playback was OK. Consequently, the problem is in connection of gstreamer and ffmpeg.

Totem (also gstreamer-based) plays everything OK. So it seems it’s only LibreOffice issue…

Please, help! Any ideas?

OS: OpenSUSE 12.2 64 bit.

P.S. I failed to find earlier ffmpeg packages for OpenSUSE 12.2.

By the way, is there anyone who can play videos in LO Impress?

> By the way, is there anyone who can play videos in LO Impress?

post a link to one that won’t play on yours…and, i’ll try it (and
maybe others too).


dd

Thank you for your reply.

Here’s link to example video:
supermonah.avi скачать с Файлы@Mail.Ru

It’s played in totem, kaffeine, vlc, mplayer, but it causes LibreOffice Impress crash. Make sure you have the latest version of gstreamer and ffmpeg packages.

Best regards,
Aleksey.

On 2012-10-10 11:36, Aleksey R wrote:
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> Here’s link to example video:
> ‘supermonah.avi скачать с Файлы@Mail.Ru’
> (http://files.mail.ru/7UUOG3)
>
> It’s played in totem, kaffeine, vlc, mplayer, but it causes LibreOffice
> Impress crash. Make sure you have the latest version of gstreamer and
> ffmpeg packages.

No, we need an impress document that loads a video (and I guess the video would be inside the
file). I have never directly opened a video from LO, I don’t know how to do that, and I see no
reason to use impress instead of xine or mplayer.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

In my case Impress crashes even during insertion a video in presentation (giving the same terminal output), so I can’t send you a odp file.

On 2012-10-10 20:16, Aleksey R wrote:
>
> In my case Impress crashes even during insertion a video in presentation
> (giving the same terminal output), so I can’t send you a odp file.

Oh.

The only thing I can do is test if it crashes here, but I’m not familiar with impress.


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

On 10/11/2012 01:13 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> I’m not familiar with impress.

me either…i wondered if it is even supposed to be possible to insert
an .avi file into an impress document and run it–so i did a google
linux libreoffice impress how-to insert avi video - Google Suche on these terms

linux libreoffice impress how-to insert avi video

but suddenly became too lazy to read all the half-million-plus hits to
be sure…but it seems that others can do it…so, i guess there is
probably a pointer to the LO documention or an on-line guide somewhere
in that google list of hits…


dd

On 2012-10-11 09:08, dd@home.dk wrote:
> On 10/11/2012 01:13 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> I’m not familiar with impress.
>
> me either…i wondered if it is even supposed to be possible to insert an .avi file into an
> impress document and run it–so i did a google linux libreoffice impress how-to insert avi video - Google Suche on these
> terms
>

> linux libreoffice impress how-to insert avi video
>

> but suddenly became too lazy to read all the half-million-plus hits to be sure…but it seems
> that others can do it…so, i guess there is probably a pointer to the LO documention or an
> on-line guide somewhere in that google list of hits…
>

I did a quick test. I started a new presentation, and in the slide that is presented there I
inserted the first video I could find in my computer. I then told it to show the slides, a the
video played: sound, no image. Tested the same video with xine and mplayer and it played right.
I have “libreoffice-3.5.4.7-4.8.1.x86_64” in 12.1 here.

I don’t know if I did the insertion right; there is an entry below insert image named insert
video… I hope that’s all. The video is large, though: 1334 MB. Should I try a smaller one?


Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)