On Sat, 4 Feb 2017 17:11:40 -0300 Ariel Constenla-Haile <arie...@apache.org> wrote:
> On 03/02/17 19:47, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > >> On Linux, OpenOffice uses gstreamer (on Fedora there are tow packages > >> for the older gstreamer API and the newer gstreamer1 API), besides > >> installing gstreamer you need to install the plugins, they may have > >> names like gstreamer-plugins-bad, gstreamer-plugins-bad-free, > >> gstreamer-plugins-ugly, etc. > > [...] > > > I'm fairly sure I have these installed; it is too late in my day for > > detailed work, so I'll check tomorrow that they are definitely installed. > > AFAIK Ubuntu comes with gstreamer1.0 by default, you need to install > gstreamer0.10 and its plugins. > > > Regards > -- > Ariel Constenla-Haile > La Plata, Argentina > Thank you, Ariel. When your email arrived I had just come to the same conclusion and was in process of installing 0.10. However, my findings are not encouraging. According to the Gstreamer site, 0.10 and 1.0 should co-exist. In my experiments they didn't - perhaps the order of installation might be important. I then removed 1.0 and it took with it many of the utilities of Xubuntu 16.04; even having carried out a fresh installation of 0.10 there were still problems handling .avi and .mpg files (I only experimented with a known good .avi and .mpg file). I've spent long enough fiddling at this - for the few presentations I have using multimedia (always video in my case), I'll manage with the hyperlink to the system video player or VLC. As 0.10 is not maintained since 2012, and modern *ubuntu distros are using 1.0, (I have no knowledge of the situation in other linux distros) perhaps it is time to consider migration to 1.0 for a future release of AOO. For information: on the gstreamer site is a note on migrating 0,1 to 1.0. Thank you for your assistance. -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
