Hello Jean, On Tuesday 20 January 2009 22:33, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > Uwe Fischer wrote: > > in theory, all movie and sound files that your default browser can play > > should also be playable in Draw and Impress. > > I think you mean default media player, not default browser?
this menu uses the Mozilla plug-ins, acording to http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/BrowseList?list=dev&by=thread&from=2159761 it seems it needs to be fixed, and testing it on a DEV300_m39, on Linux, no plug- in works for me. > > Unfortunately, it is not easy to > > guarantee this for a multi-platform program. So there are some issues: > > That is a lot of issues! > > I have another question. In the Help, a note in the Media Player topic > says: > > --------------- > On UNIX systems, the Media Player requires the Java Media Framework API > (JMF). Download and install the JMF files, and add the path to the > installed jmf.jar to the class path in Tools - Options - OpenOffice.org - > Java. > --------------- > > Minor issue: Is "UNIX" the best term to use here? I assume it includes > Linux, but I'm not sure that all the newbie Linux users (of which I am one) > equate "UNIX" with "Linux". > > Real question: is there somewhere with good, clear, easy-to-follow (for us > Linux newbies) instructions on where to get and how to install JMF, > specifically on Ubuntu? (I'm not suggesting that info should be in the > Help, but I want to know for my own use.) I had a look through Synaptic but > didn't find anything I recognised as being JMF or JMF-related. you have to download the "JMF Performance Pack for Linux" from Sun: http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/media/jmf/2.1.1/download.html Setting this up can be very simple, or an odyssey (no middle term). First time I tried on other system it was very easy, now on Fedora 10 the file coulnd't even be installed due to an issue in the installer, so I had to edit the binary in vim and modify a line. And the supported formats are very little, even if you download the mp3 plug- in (http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/media/jmf/mp3/download.html). I download and compile the Fobs4JMF, which is a JMF wrapper for ffmpeg (that means, you can play almost *anything*), see http://fobs.sourceforge.net . Any way, I'd suggest you give it a try (otherwise you have no other option to use that fork, that comes with native gstreamer support - something I strongly discourage! IMHO for a few features you get lots of issues). I download the file. Extract it in my home dir. I don't follow the instructions for the mp3 plug-in, but unzip it and copy it in the JMF (JMF-2.1.1e/lib). Then as su I move the JMF-2.1.1e to /opt, create a simlink /opt/JMF so I can update easyly (well, "update" is just a word here, as this is very unmantained by Sun). Then I solve every class path and library search path problem by creating/editing /etc/profile.d/java.sh (in Fedora and Ubuntu I had to create it), that looks like this: export JAVA_HOME=/opt/jdk export JMFHOME=/opt/JMF export CLASSPATH=$JMFHOME/lib/jmf.jar:$JMFHOME/lib/mp3plugin.jar: $JMFHOME/lib/fobs4jmf.jar:$CLASSPATH export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$JMFHOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$JMFHOME/bin:$PATH Add the $JMFHOME/lib/jmf.jar to OOo classpath (menu Tools - Options - Java), and reboot. Then as su, run the JMStudio and add the mp3 plug-in. Building Fobs4JMF, the JMF wrapper for ffmpeg, requires some knowledge on building (and programming: I had to correct some errors in five files to compile). They have a deb pkg for Ubuntu but it's old. Regards -- Ariel Constenla-Haile La Plata, Argentina "Aus der Kriegsschule des Lebens - Was mich nicht umbringt, macht mich härter." Nietzsche Götzendämmerung, Sprüche und Pfeile, 8. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@documentation.openoffice.org
