I am running Ubuntu 10.10, and ran into this exact problem. In editing
mode, I can insert a video into a slide and Impress displays a frame
from the video. Using Tools->Media Player, the video opens and plays
correctly. When in presentation mode, the video is simply a gray square.

After reading the above post, I checked the href path of the inserted
video file. It displays as "href=media/Video.mpg". The video is present
in the media folder inside the ODP archive. Manually modifying the href
path to the full path of the video file does allow the video to play in
presentation mode. After opening the modified presentation, Impress asks
if media paths should be updated. Selecting "yes" modifies the href path
to "href=../Video.mpg". Again, the video plays correctly in presentation
mode. So, it seems the issue is related to Impress not finding the video
in its own archive.

On a possibly related note, deleting the video from the Impress
presentation does not seem to remove it from the the Impress media
folder. This causes the ODP file size to increase drastically as you
modify the presentation over time.

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Impress doesn't play videos in Ubuntu 10.10
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/660807
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