Wow! OpenOffice3 rules. But it reaches its true potential only when gstreamer is used as the backend for video. I am sure that I have run into this problem before: make a presentation on one platform (some fedora core). and then go to transfer to another computer and decide to upgrade OpenOfffice. I would typically do this using the binaries from OpenOffice, and then fiddle around with settings wondering why my ffmpeg encoded videos no longer work. The problem is that the binary packages on OpenOffice’s site are not packaged with the gstreamer back-end. For sure the version in fedora’s repositories use gstreamer.
In order to get this working last night, I decided to just upgrade to FC11 on my laptop. This was rather painless, and most of my own code compiled without problems. It seems that they are still cleaning up the standard include files, so I just had to add some missing “#include
Japan tomorrow. And I am friggin’ tired.
