Does not record updates within LibreOffice presentation

[jdeisenberg]

I am recording a LibreOffice presentation and go through several slides, but SSR records only the first one. When I exit LibreOffice, the screen then updates.

[ubuntuaddicted]

Probably has something to do with the screen transition. Are you capturing your screen or a region?

[jdeisenberg]

There are no transitions between slides. I am recording the entire screen. There is a large amount of data added at each slide (an icon covering about 20% of the screen area, for example). When I export the file as PDF and display it in presentation mode using Okular, everything works great.

[aleksandaratanasov]

LibreOffice Presentation tends to be very sluggish especially with a lot of image data on the slides. Have you tried reducing the quality and dimensions of the image?

[jdeisenberg]

I wouldn't say that the slides are exactly bursting with content. See http://langintro.com/misc/slide_sample.odp

[MaartenBaert]

The issue is probably related to how LibreOffice switches to fullscreen mode. This is problematic with some graphics drivers, particularly AMD. Do you have an AMD card?

Edit: I can record your example presentation without any issues.

[jdeisenberg]

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        Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device 085e
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 90
        Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
        Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
        I/O ports at f080 [size=8]
        Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
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        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915

[MaartenBaert]

Which window manager are you using? If it is a compositing window manager, it may be using an optimization called 'fullscreen unredirection' which sometimes creates problems. If this is the cause, you can fix it either by disabling that optimization or by disabling compositing completely. This is the setting I'm talking about for XFCE:

[jdeisenberg]

Strangely enough, it appears to work with compositing on, but not with compositing off.

[pelliott80]

Go to openoffice impress goto slide show settings. click on window rather than default!

run a slide show with ssr recording not started yet! run ssr and select a rectangle outlining the open office slide show area!

Record, and run the slide show.

The video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wps-l_2tN0E was produced in exactly this way!

The videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OkWlih5Qw0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFQLkkroTGQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erh3b8vX7jw

describe how openoffice impress sound transition bug may be worked around for debian testing and jessie! This may be also of interest!

On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 06:49:09AM -0700, MaartenBaert wrote:

Which window manager are you using? If it is a compositing window manager, it may be using an optimization called 'fullscreen unredirection' which sometimes creates problems. If this is the cause, you can fix it either by disabling that optimization or by disabling compositing completely. This is the setting I'm talking about for XFCE:

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[jdeisenberg]

Using "window" rather than default may solve the problem of not updating, but I need to have the entire screen, without any window decorations.