From ed5640d8b587fbcfed7dd7967f3de04b37a76f26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2024 11:06:44 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 4:7.4.7. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- avmedia/README.md | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+) create mode 100644 avmedia/README.md (limited to 'avmedia/README.md') diff --git a/avmedia/README.md b/avmedia/README.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..51202cbe3 --- /dev/null +++ b/avmedia/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +# 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 Works + +it might be worthwhile to revamp the avmedia UI. -- cgit v1.2.3