On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:50:19 -0800 (PST), Mike Zingale <zingale@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, I am struggling to get movies inserted in presentations with the > development snapshots of openoffice.org 2.0. In the new OOo version, > they've switched the media capabilities over to the Java Media Framework. > A description of this is at: > > http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/media_player/MediaPlayer.sxw Interesting. Maybe the Gnome integration people can build a gstreamer plugin for it. Not that I'm holding my breath for office documents with embedded soundtracks ;) > When I try the diagnostic applet linked to there (after restarting > mozilla), I get: > > JMF classes.....Not Found Looks like mozilla doesn't know about the CLASSPATH (it's not a global variable, but depends on the shell you're in). Maybe you set that classpath variable in the mozilla start script or the launcher. > There seems to be a lot of people reporting troubles in getting the Java > Media Framework working with Linux on various lists, but I have not come > across any solutions. Since this is an integral part of the new OOo 2.0 > release, which will eventually become part of Fedora, I am wondering if > anyone has had any success in getting the JMF applets to work with Fedora. I don't think Fedora will be integrating JMF since it's not open source and not freely distributable. see: http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jmf/2.1.1/license.html Klaasjan
