Openoffice media player

[Michael A. Peters]

On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 17:57 +0200, Klaasjan Brand wrote:

> 
> A gstreamer-based implementation would be a much better way to go since
> the java media stuff is not that great and it seems like it's not being
> maintained very well. Porting to gstreamer could be a lot of work, but
> maybe the gstreamer people are better at estimating that...

GStreamer would be better anyway because it appears to be the chosen
media framework for gnome, and since it supports plugins - vendors that
do not wish to license patented codecs (like Fedora) don't have to, the
end user can simply install the plugins as needed.

GStreamer is definitely the best way to do it.

Rather than port what they have to GStreamer, maybe it would be better
to start fresh and hook into totem - kind of like the totem mozilla
plugin is doing (anyone tried that recently??)

Alternatively - there are Python gstreamer bindings and perl gstreamer
bindings that might be good enough to just do it that way, which would
probably be more portable (if it's fast enough)

I haven't seen the OO.o media player, I don't use it - so maybe I'm just
blowing wind.