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diff --git a/avmedia/README b/avmedia/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..32155b2ac --- /dev/null +++ b/avmedia/README @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Audio/Video media implementation. + +Provides per-platform implementations of multimedia functionality. +Currently no stream API is provided, only a URI based one, so +streaming has to be wrapped around it via temp files. + +Also provides (in source/framework/mediacontrol.cxx) an implementation +of the graphical media playback control that appears in the toolbar / +mediaobject bar when media is selected under the .uno:AVMediaToolBox +item. + +== avmedia/gstreamer == + +The avmedia component is implementation of manager service defined in +offapi/com/sun/star/media/. Radek has added implementation based on +gstreamer so that we can add audio and video files into impress +presentation on Linux with gstreamer. + +The implementation is pretty straightforward, sometimes it has +problems when gstreamer installation is incomplete. + +In the beginning the media files were not embedded, Thorsten added +support for that later. + +FUTURE work: it might be worthwhile to revamp the avmedia UI |