2008/3/8, David Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Mar 8, 2008, at 04:52 , Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>
> > Or in other words: When I click [Tools → Media Player], which
> > brings a Media
> > Player, what IS that really? Is it a built in Media Player? Maybe a
> > third
> > party Media Player plugin of some kind? Or does OpenOffice.org just
> > call one
> > of my installed Media Players (I doubt that since I didn't
> > recognise it)? In
> > that case, where can I change which one I want it to pick?
>
>
>
> Johnny, this was answered yesterday by an employee of
> Sun. However,
> since some people's eyes may have glazed over on reading his message,
> here is the crucial part:
>
>
> On Mar 7, 2008, at 02:10 , Uwe Fischer wrote:
> > "Although the frontend and the integration visible to the user will
> > be completely realized with the OpenOffice.org programming
> > framework, the underlying functionality to load, filter and render
> > media files will be deligated to 3rd party frameworks. In the first
> > run we will use the JavaMediaFramework (JMF) on Unix systems and
> > the DirectShow API on Windows systems."
Yes, you are right, and I think I saw it too. I just didn't understand it
(my English again...). Now, when someone explained what framework is, I
think I understand it somewhat better, however.
So presumably on Linux/BSD/etc. this JavaMediaFramework will be
> installed. I'm not sure if this is what we're looking for, but on my
> copy of Ubuntu i see /usr/lib/openoffice/program/libjvmfwk.so.3.
> Note that amongst the dependencies of openoffice.org-common, there
> also exists a need for libgstreamer and libgstreamer-plugins, which
> strikes me as strange. However, they are quite possibly required for
> loading media into Impress.
>
> Using a rusty Amiga 4000T, a shiny PowerMac G5, & a homebuilt Ubuntu box
>
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