OpenOffice.org Media Player doesn't support popular open media formats, like OGG/Vorbis, FLAC or OGG/Theora

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas]

I think OpenOffice.org Media Player *should* support at least most popular open media formats, like OGG/Vorbis, FLAC (look at www.vorbis.com ) or OGG/Theora (look at www.theora.org ) as default or at least show helpfull suggestions (in Recommends/Sugessts list and in description of openoffice.org package or in warning dialog, when user tries to open not supported files) how to get OpenOffice.org working with these audio/video file formats.

OGG support is still broken on Ubuntu's OpenOffice.org (tested with 2.0.1oob680m5):

1. Now there are no .ogg extension in OpenOffice.org Media Player's Open dialog :(, so OGG/Vorbis audio or OGG/Theora video files user doesn't see as default :(

2. According to OOo issue #51654, OOo Media Player on Linux uses the Java Media Framework, that supports by itself a variety of formats and can be extended by plugins to support even more formats. Why don't include support for OGG/Vorbis, FLAC or Theora multimedia formats as default in OOo packages or make separate package, which could be in Recommends/Suggest list of OpenOffice.org package?

3. User should get info (URL) where to get OGG/Vorbis, FLAC or Theora support if they tries to open multimedia files, encoded in these formats, but now I get only dumb message "The format of selected files is not supported" :(

I don't know if I should report 3 separate bugreports or it's enough just this one bugreport ?

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

needs a working JMF on Linux, or maybe a (big) patch to make OOo work with gstreamer?

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

2.0.4 includes gstreamer support.

[suoko (suoko)]

2009 and ooo in ubuntu 9.04 still lacks ogg support
it would be quite useful for presentation and explanation especially if used to gtk-recordmydesktop