Embedded video in OO.org Impress? no formats work?

[Caolan McNamara]

On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 03:33 -0500, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I was doing a slideshow presentation related to Fedora no less, on
> Fedora, and I couldn't get Impress to accept any popular video
> formats. I tried .avi, .mpeg, and .ogm. I used the file command each
> time to ensure that the file was what I expected it to be. And Impress
> rejected all of them, claiming that it did not support the format. I
> had to resort to using OO.org on WinXP to get the presentation done.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=161474

For <= FC6:
In theory OOo can embed video using the "Java Media Framework" through
"avmedia". But the JMF doesn't work with gcj I believe, and anyway it
isn't bundled by default so video doesn't work out of the box in <= FC6.
While on windows it does work out of the box as there's some windows
video backends included in the windows version of OOo for avmedia.

But I'm not actually sure what formats the JMF supports.

For >= FC7:

Meanwhile in FC-7 things are better in that we've included an
in-development gstreamer backend for avmedia
(/usr/lib/openoffice.org/program/libavmediagst.so) and that should
support whatever your installed gstreamer setup supports. i.e. to use
"Insert->Movie and Sound"

Here's a demo of an impress presentation with an embedded video, it
*should* work on rawhide/FC-7 out of the box (works for me(tm))
http://people.redhat.com/caolanm/slideshow/videodemo.odp

It might be a bit rough and ready right now, but I decided to include it 
for FC-7 anyway.

C.