I wanted to prepare my minimalist slideshow with a video slide, so decided to go more conventionally, and instead of using my beloved Obsidian/Advanced slides workflow, just use any dedicated open source app. Guess what.
Collabora on nextcloud just cant autoplay a video slide, and displays a f-ing ugly blue distorted icon stretched across the screen, which I have to click. I'm not showing this to artist community.
Onlyoffice on desktop simply dies from adding mp4 file.
Libreoffice Impress is by far the stupidest. For some reason you have to work a little by copypasting measurements to make standard fullhd video perfectly fit size and position on 16:9 slide. And then you switch to presentation mode, and the video just resizes like three times and shifts halfway of screen. I guess this has to do with dpi scaling, because apparently you cannot work with the sizes in pixels in presentation software - it only works in centimeters, inches and other real-world measurements. Fucking stupid to use centimeters for screen-based media to begin with. My ass, I bet the developers do not use it themselves. Ghrrr. Going inkscape -> interactive pdf now.
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