Well. Hmm. As I understand it, Microsoft provides piggyback services for media
player the same as they do for windows based browsers. All the components are
already there. All you need to do is setup an interface, and link to the codecs.
There are multiple documents that can be found online that teach the amateur
programmer how to build their own web browser with fewer than 20 lines of code.
I think Windows Media Player mobile codec's work similarely, to the realplayer
plugin... You just drop it into your code, and then attach trigger's so that
the events occur when their supposed to. There might even be video frame
control, for speed, and series settings from the code base... Something to
check out?
The obvious catch of course is that you need to identify that indeed the video
is being played back through a windows media player plugin, integrated into
OOo, If you're interested. As for other OS's I'm totaly in the dark.
Rigel
Chad Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Could you describe a little more what MS Producer does or the particular
> feature(s) that are most interesting to you? Or point to some similar
> non-MS tools which also have those features? I saw some in the early
> 90's but things have changed since then.
>
> The first link you provided seem to make it look like it allowed video
> or audio to accompany a presentation. The second link seemed like it
> refused access to mon-MS systems.
MS Producer does exactly that. It allows you to record a video to
accompany your presentation.
Most of the time, in real life, when someone is showing a Powerpoint
presentation, (or an Impress one), they are standing in front of the
audience talking and clicking through the slides. Most of the time,
these presentations are pretty boring and confusing without explanation.
MS Producer allows you to show the video along side the presentation,
just as if you were in the room giving the speech.
It's not for live presentations, since, of course, the speaker would be
there doing what the video does. It's for web-based presentations or
disc-based ones.
It's more than just letting you play a video next to a presentation - it
allows you to sync it all up, so the slides match the video. I haven't
played with it too much, so I don't know if it lets you choose different
paths... (like the viewer could click something to go to a different
slide with matching video). But that may be possible.
I doubt OOo will be offering this feature anytime soon, as it would
require the creation of our own media player - or the inclusion of one
from another project. It could probably be done by the end user with a
little timing, some HTML, an embedded media player, and good timing.
The problem would be making a button for the viewer to click that would
start them both at the same time.
MS Producer takes care of all that for you.
-Chad Smith
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