I'm using LibreOffice Impress on Arch Linux to make a presentation. When I embed a video into my presentation, the video initially plays fine, but gets distorted after a few seconds. The distortion seems to involve a combination of screen tearing, flickering, and other things. I read here that LibreOffice requires gstreamer to play videos, so I have installed Arch's gstreamer package as well as all of the associated plugins packages. I also tried using different video formats and different codecs, but that didn't help.
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I was able to work around this problem by changing the SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN environment variable in the file /etc/profile.d/libreoffice-still.sh. Originally, all lines in that file were uncommented, which I think made SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN default to gtk3. I seemed to fix the problem by uncommenting the export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gen line. Unfortunately this option makes the user interface not look as good, although it still seems to be functional.
pre-2021 note
This answer has been updated. Prior to 2021, one of the options in /etc/profile.d/libreoffice-still.sh was export SAL_USE_VCLPLUGIN=gtk. That option made embedded videos play well and made the user interface look nice. However, this option is no longer available. I also tried adding it manually but it doesn't seem to have the same effect.
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