On 05/30/2018 03:08 PM, Torokhov Sergey wrote: > > 28.05.2018, 20:19, "Kay Schenk" <kay.sch...@gmail.com>: > >> This is ONLY for Linux. So, how is multimedia "integrated" in AOO for >> Mac and Windows? Can someone point us to the applicable code areas for this? >> >> I have a feeling gstreamer was integrated long ago when no other >> multi-media standard/app for Linux existed. Now it seems VLC seems to >> the standard for the most part. (This is a dated web page but I think >> it's still a good reference: >> http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialMimeTypesAndApplications.html). >> Basically, we are supplying gstreamer as a multimedia app to Linux when >> maybe this isn't really needed. > The using of gstreamer multimedia backend of OpenOffice was anounced in > Oracle OpenOffice.org 3.4 Beta > in April 2010 and the first release with it was the Apache OpenOffice 3.4.0 > in May 2012. > > Previously to play multimedia content in OpenOffice the Java Media Framework > (JMF) was used > ( https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Java/Java_Media_Framework ). > The JMF wasn't updated since 2003 and supported too small amount of formats > in contrast to gstreamer.
Thank you for this information, it is useful. I understand the need for a standardized AV app in some ways, but, assuming an end user's preferred AV app supports a wide variety of formats, I think it would be better for AOO (in non-Win, non-Mac) implementations to try to determine the the end user's AV application, and use that rather than providing a new AV app. But...a much longer discussion not on this thread. -- ------------------------------------------ MzK "Less is MORE." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
