Christian Lohmaier wrote:
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:14:57AM +0200, Philipp Lohmann wrote:
Christian Lohmaier wrote:
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:35:40AM +0200, Philipp Lohmann wrote:
Christian Lohmaier wrote:
So the question is: Why require an external tool at all and not use the
code that plays the sound (in the preview dialog) throughout the office?
I guess the idea was that JMF supports more than just wav files, also it
can play video as well as far as I know.
It is just this: Most users don't need videos or other formats in their
presentations. Wavs would be fine for most of the use-cases.
OOo already has code for both, so why is it not possible to play wavs
with the existing and still shipped code and rely on JMF for the rest?
Not possible is not quite what I'd say. Counterquestion: why should we
have two separate sound systems ? Currently this is the case, but I'd
rather sooner than later yank out one both. JMF can handle our needs
just nicely. The question is more whether JMF ever becomes a widespread
standard (at least on non-Windows platforms). With JMF's support for
codecs this would significantly enhance multimedia capabilities for
Unixish platforms. I guess the original hope when choosing JMF was ,yes
this will be a standard soon, but currently I don't know.
Please note that I wasn't involved in the implementation, so I'm
basically just guessing.
Kind regards, pl
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