Christian Lippka wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
2009/11/25 Christian Lippka <[email protected]>
Hi,
like I said in my recent reply to leslie, OOo on windows can
only play what is available as a direct show filter. So if
the original microsoft media player can play it so should OOo.
Sorry but this doesn't seem to apply. Without using OOo, I can play
the file
on both XP Pro and Vista.
And which applications you use to play it on XP and on Vista?
But on XP Pro OOo can import and play the file but
on Vista it can't even import it, let alone play it. However, NoOp's
researches *seem* to indicate that there's a problem with OOo.
If OOo can play other media files than OOo works. OOo has no special
code to play mp4. On a windows operating system it always uses the
microsoft direct show API. If direct show can play it, OOo can.
Not all media players on windows use direct show. VLC does not use it,
quicktime does not use it for their native formats. Microsoft Media
Player does use it.
Windows Media Player *cannot* play the file. What is "direct show"? Is
it anything to do with "DirectX"?
Please try to install 'ffdshow tryouts'. This should enable mp4 support
in OOo as it provides a direct show filter which uses the same backend
as the VLC player does.
What is "ffdshow tryouts" and where do I get it from?
I installed ffdshow [ FFDShow MPEG-4 Video Decoder 2009-11-08 ]
<http://www.free-codecs.com/download_soft.php?d=4787&s=50>from
<http://www.free-codecs.com/FFDShow_download.htm> but it made no
difference to Windows Media Player's [lack of] ability and provided no
actual executable with which to play the file.
<http://www.free-codecs.com/download_soft.php?d=4787&s=50>
When it come to computers, please don't ever use the word "should".
Windows
*should* never blue-screen. Any argument based on what a piece of
software
*should* do is always suspect and almost always wrong.
It is not an argument, I just say how it is supposed to operate. If it
does not what it should than this is a bug and I'm happy to fix it for
you :-) If OOo does not play a video on windows which direct show has no
codec for, than that is not a bug. OOo can't do magic.
Regards,
Christian
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Harold Fuchs
London, England
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