Media Support/Summary
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This page provides a Summary of our media support in LibreOffice.
Sources
The information below is backed by test runs from our Test Pages or information provided in bugs on Bugzilla.
Bitmap Image Formats
Results of testing import of bitmap image file formats.
Open Formats we recommend | File format (+ Link to test file) |
GNU+Linux | macOS | Microsoft Windows | Android | Notes | ||||
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Inserts into Writer correctly? | Opens in Draw correctly? | Inserts into Writer correctly? | Opens in Draw correctly? | Inserts into Writer correctly? | Opens in Draw correctly? | Inserts into Writer correctly? | Opens in Draw correctly? | |||
BMP |
No image insertion support yet |
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GIF |
No image insertion support yet |
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JPEG |
No image insertion support yet |
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JP2 (Jpeg2000) |
No image insertion support yet |
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PNG |
No image insertion support yet |
No support for animated PNG (APNG), imported image will display as static image instead. | |||||||
PPM [1] |
No image insertion support yet |
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TIFF |
No image insertion support yet |
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WEBP |
No image insertion support yet |
Supported since LO 7.4, see tdf#114532 | ||||||||
XCF (Gimp) |
No image insertion support yet |
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PSD (Photoshop) | ||||||||||
PSD (8-bit, grayscale) |
No image insertion support yet |
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PSD (8-bit RGB) |
No image insertion support yet |
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PSD (32-bit) |
No image insertion support yet |
Vector Graphics Formats
Results of testing import of vector graphics file formats.
Open Formats we recommend | File format (+ Link to test file) |
GNU+Linux | macOS | Microsoft Windows | Android | Notes | ||||
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Inserts into Writer correctly? | Opens in Draw correctly? | Inserts into Writer correctly? | Opens in Draw correctly? | Inserts into Writer correctly? | Opens in Draw correctly? | Inserts into Writer correctly? | Opens in Draw correctly? | |||
EPS |
4.3.1.1 |
No image insertion support yet |
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SVG |
No image insertion support yet |
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AI (Illustrator) | ||||||||||
AI (Illustrator 9.0) |
No image insertion support yet |
Document Formats
Results of testing import of publication Documents file formats.
Open Formats we recommend | File format (+ Link to test file) |
GNU+Linux | macOS | Microsoft Windows | Android | Notes | ||||
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Inserts into Writer correctly? | Opens in Draw correctly? | Inserts into Writer correctly? | Opens in Draw correctly? | Inserts into Writer correctly? | Opens in Draw correctly? | Inserts into Writer correctly? | Opens in Draw correctly? | |||
MathML [2] |
No image insertion support yet |
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ODG |
No image insertion support yet |
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(4.3.1.1 not listed in filepicker; need to extract a page with external tool) |
No image insertion support yet |
At least under Linux, there are tools to extract pages from a PDF file (e.g. pdftoppm) | |||||||
PS (PostScript) |
(4.3.1.1 not listed in filepicker; need to extract a page with external tool) |
No image insertion support yet |
At least under Linux, there are tools to extract pages from a PS file (e.g. pstopnm) |
Audio Formats
Open formats we recommend | File format (+ Link to test file) |
GNU+Linux | macOS | Microsoft Windows | Android | Notes | ||||
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Preview playback? | Fullscreen slideshow? | Preview playback? | Fullscreen slideshow? | Preview playback? | Fullscreen slideshow? | Preview playback? | Fullscreen slideshow? | |||
AC3 |
. |
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AU |
. |
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FLAC |
. |
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M4A |
. |
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MP2 |
. |
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MP3 |
. |
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Ogg Vorbis |
. |
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Opus |
. |
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WAV |
. |
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WMA (Windows Media Audio) |
. |
WMA is supported by builds that use GStreamer 1.0 (e.g. latest builds from Ubuntu) |
Video Formats
- GNU+Linux:
- Official TDF builds currently use GStreamer 0.1, while Ubuntu-provided builds use GStreamer 1.0 and provide support for more formats (and features in formats)
Open formats we recommend | File format | GNU+Linux | macOS | Microsoft Windows | Notes | |||||
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File (+ Link to test file) |
Video codec | Audio codec | Preview playback? | Fullscreen slideshow? | Preview playback? | Fullscreen slideshow? | Preview playback? | Fullscreen slideshow? | ||
3GP (3GPP2) | MPEG4 | AAC | ||||||||
ASF (Microsoft Advanced Systems Format/ Advanced Streaming Format/ Active Streaming Format) | MSMPEG4 | MP2 | ||||||||
AVI | MSMPEG4 | MP3 | ||||||||
DV (DIF Movie file) | DVVIDEO | PCM | ||||||||
FLV (Macromedia Flash Video) | FLV | MP3 | ||||||||
MKV (Matroska data) | VP8 | Vorbis | ||||||||
MOV (Apple QuickTime) | MPEG4 | AAC | ||||||||
MP2 (MPEG-2) | MPEG2VIDEO | MP3 |
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MP4 (MPEGv4) | MPEG4 | AAC | ||||||||
MPG (MPEGv1) | MPEG1VIDEO | MP2 | ||||||||
OGV (Ogg Data, Theora Video) | Theora | FLAC | ||||||||
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OGV (Ogg Data, Theora Video) | Theora | Vorbis | |||||||
RM (RealMedia) | RV10 | AC3 | ||||||||
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WebM | VP8 | Vorbis | |||||||
WMV (Windows Media Video) | WMV2 | WMAV2 | ||||||||
Youtube/Streaming/Remote Video URL | (various) | (various) | Functionality not yet supported -- development help appreciated!
See tdf#42246 - Cannot Embed Videos from Popular Video Websites |