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+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