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authorRadek Doulik <rodo@novell.com>2013-07-08 18:56:33 +0200
committerJan Holesovsky <kendy@suse.cz>2013-07-08 18:57:44 +0200
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Turn Radek's notes into README files.
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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. \ No newline at end of file
+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