Caolán McNamara wrote:

> So looking into Insert->Object->Sound|Video I see that it really
> basically also means Insert->Object->Plugin
> where the plugins are mozilla plugins found in /usr/lib/netscape/plugins
> 
> Are there any known available mozilla plugin which works with this at
> the moment ? Under Linux I see that libflashplayer.so "sort of" does
> something, i.e. something briefly displayed in the top left corner of
> the document area, not inside the "ole object" area.
> 
> Various other plugins I've tried crash OOo, so I wonder
> a) Is there much use in having Insert->Object->Sound and
> Insert->Object->Video as entries in our menus given that
> Insert->Object->Plugin exists and we already have "Insert->Movie and
> Sound" for avmedia support.
> 
> b) Is it worth fixing the use-mozilla-plugin stuff ?, i.e. remove the
> crashes, fix up to work on 64bit, look also in modern mozilla plugins
> location, do something like add a glib/gtk main loop to pluginapp to get
> new plugins which quite often seem to depend on that existing to
> function, etc. Or should it just be removed ?. Maybe it is working well
> on non-linux platforms ?

The location problem was fixed by Philipp Lohmann (AFAIK). I think
fixing bugs wrt. plugin support makes sense, as Mozilla plugins are a
nice way to re-use existing work and IMHO we should keep that as a part
of OOo.

To my knowledge it works quite well on Windows, though I didn't test a
lot of different plugins.

Ciao,
Mathias

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