FS#10235 - OpenOffice does not support the embedding of multimedia files

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Anonymous Submitter - Sunday, 20 April 2008, 17:32 GMT
Last edited by eliott (cactus) - Thursday, 08 May 2008, 06:14 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
By default, OpenOffice use JMF (Java Media Framework) which has not been updated in 5 years. It's extremely hard to get it to work. I spent a few hours creating a package for it because the JMF package on AUR does not work. While the libraries are found, I get no video and sound. Searching google gives you the same story. Getting JMF to work is a PITA. I've tried to get it to work on Ubuntu as well with the same result.

Debian has a gstreamer patch for their openoffice. I propose that we use that patch.

Recently, I had to resort to PowerPoint on Vista to create a presentation with video in it.
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Closed by  eliott (cactus)
Thursday, 08 May 2008, 06:14 GMT
Reason for closing:  None
Additional comments about closing:  Sounds like an upstream issue to me.
We generally don't patch for features, only for fairly significant/severe bugs or compat issues...preferring to leave bug fixes to upstream whenever possible.

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