The implementation can be found at avmedia/source/ I think we use native API / libs for Windows and Mac.
Am 28. Mai 2018 19:18:34 MESZ schrieb Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com>: >On 05/28/2018 12:05 AM, Peter kovacs wrote: >> Imho the gstreamer libs are still the method of choice for doing >multimedia. > >This is ONLY for Linux. So, how is multimedia "integrated" in AOO for >Mac and Windows? Can someone point us to the applicable code areas for >this? > >I have a feeling gstreamer was integrated long ago when no other >multi-media standard/app for Linux existed. Now it seems VLC seems to >the standard for the most part. (This is a dated web page but I think >it's still a good reference: >http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialMimeTypesAndApplications.html). >Basically, we are supplying gstreamer as a multimedia app to Linux when >maybe this isn't really needed. > >> >> The current state is that trunk can utilize the gstreamer API 1.0.0 >> >> We have the issue not resolved the issue to provide gstreamer for >different Distributions. (Main issue: centos6 is to old to support the >new gstreamer 1.0.0 API) >> We have 2 suggestions to solve the issue: >> 1) implement 0.1.0 and 1.0.0 API. >> 2) move the implementation into an optional extention. >> >> Both solutions have currently not followed up. >> >> All the best >> Peter >> >> Am 26. Mai 2018 18:53:46 MESZ schrieb Kay Schenk ><kay.sch...@gmail.com>: >>> On 05/23/2018 05:35 AM, Jim Jagielski wrote: >>>> Subj line sez it all... where are we? There was a proposal to make >it >>> a run-time dependency but afaict there hasn't been any effort yet it >>> doing that. >>>> I know we have a handful of other things TODO re: 4.2.0 but this >>> seems to be an inflection point for the Linux builds and so I really >>> think we need to resolve this if we have any intent in getting a >4.2.0 >>> beta out in a reasonable time frame. >>> >>> What would happen if we simply stopped including the >--with-gstreamer >>> option in the build? Mac and Windows builds don't use it, and it >only >>> applies to Linux. >>> >>> I haven't investigated the code much to see how the gstreamer >libraries >>> are used. The Linux distros now mostly use Freedesktop lower level >>> interfaces except I don't know what Unity uses. Is building with >>> gstreamer still needed/compliant with this? In short, how are video >>> applications determined in Linux now? Do we need a different >approach >>> for integration of video objects in Linux? >>> >>> If anyone knows the history of this, it would be very helpful to >this >>> discussion. >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
