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I have a presentation with a video in it (.ogg). While it works really well on my regular desktop (Unity), on my 4-years old laptop with Lubuntu installed LibreOffice cannot play the video, it just stays white. However, I can still play the file in GNOME MPlayer.

Any idea on the codec I need to install or something?

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It appears that openjdk doesn't support the JMF, which is required in order to play videos. This following script from here installs sun's java and fixes the problem.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java7-installer
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Sorry this may not be answer ,I do not see the comment option. I want to ask you have you tried VLC media Player VLC can play almost all Formats for you even if you have a slow pc.

Type this in Terminal

sudo apt-get install vlc
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New users often cannot comment on questions, that's normal. I have vlc installed though, but it doesn't make a difference, because I can already play it in GNOME MPlayer, so the support is already there. – pythonm Nov 26 '12 at 13:15
You said it cannot play the video and then you are saying every thing works. Is the problem already solved? – DjBmNukez Nov 26 '12 at 13:19
I can play, libreoffice can't – pythonm Nov 26 '12 at 13:21
have you tried Openoffice? – DjBmNukez Nov 27 '12 at 13:08

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