Hi Mr. Anrndt! How would one go about getting the programmers at OO to take an interest in this and code 1. A Media Player designed for OO Impress (which could probably be used for the rest of the OO office suite as well) 2. A mini browser which would consist of different formats of frames that would contain, video, audio, slides, list of slides. 3. Timer that would allow for appropriate changing of slides. 4. A desktop application which could run Impress files when OO was not installed on a computer. (Not exactly part of the MS Producer thing, but, something I also wanted to put out there as a possible feature.)
I am not a programmer and would not know where to begin but it would be nice if even some of the community folk would take this on as a project. Some of the community programmers might be interested if they were given a place to work with a project director/leader. It took a while for the OO bibliographic component to catch fire but recently it has been gaining a lot of steam. Looks like it is really going to be "outta sight" when completed. I really think this has been a strong reason as to why it has not taken on in the Academic community as well as it could have. When the biblio component of OO is revised and upgraded, I think it will take off in Academia and get more speed with the public. Although the biblio part of OO had good directors/leaders it appeared to languish for quite a while because they could not get programmers to understand the importance of the development of a good bibliographic component for OO. This may also be the case with a OO kind of MS Producer. But, at least if it is given some space with a director it may eventually get some steam like the biblio project did. Also, if given space with a director and announcement should be posted in the forums as well so that community programmers will know that the potential for such a project exists. Does anybody else have some other thoughts about this?? SC On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 07:00:25 -0800 (PST), Mr Rigel Anrndt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
