README.md
1# Audio / video Media Implementation.
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3Provides per-platform implementations of multimedia functionality.
4Currently no stream API is provided, only a URI based one, so
5streaming has to be wrapped around it via temp files.
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7Also provides (in `source/framework/mediacontrol.cxx`) an implementation
8of the graphical media playback control that appears in the toolbar /
9mediaobject bar when media is selected under the `.uno:AVMediaToolBox`
10item.
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12## avmedia / gstreamer
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14The `avmedia` component is implementation of manager service defined in
15`offapi/com/sun/star/media/`. Radek has added implementation based on
16gstreamer so that we can add audio and video files into impress
17presentation on Linux with gstreamer.
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19The implementation is pretty straightforward, sometimes it has
20problems when gstreamer installation is incomplete.
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22In the beginning the media files were not embedded, Thorsten added
23support for that later.
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25## Future Works
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27it might be worthwhile to revamp the avmedia UI.
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