[gst-devel] Openofficesrc-plugin

[Michael Krog]

Okay. I would think it would be possible using the UNO-framework.
Check out this guy: http://mithrandr.moria.org/blog/447.html

He starts up a headless openoffice and uses the UNO-framework
to open documents and convert to PDF via the remote headless
openoffice instance.

Somehow it must be possible to make openoffice draw on a
custom canvas or frame and let that be the source for imagedata.

-Michael

On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 11:44 +0200, Andy Wingo wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 08:43 +0200, Michael Krog wrote:
> > Has anyone been working on a source for openoffice-slidehows?
> > Im on a project which might need it in a year or so, and would
> > hate to start from scratch i anyone already had something going.
> > 
> > The idea would be to stream video of the slideshow and control
> > the show (forward, back, etc.) + the ability to open all the
> > format open office supports.
> 
> No one that I know is working on this, no; the best idea that we had
> (IMO) for video + openoffice integration was to do desktop sharing on
> the presentation machine via vnc, and capture video via rfb. Mike Smith
> has been poking at this a bit.
> 
> That way you take take an openoffice presentation and make a video out
> of it. You could then seek in it later if you like. Not exactly what you
> were asking for, but hey...
> 
> Cheers,