Re: Need help compiling using the --enable-vlc option.

Wow, that was easy. Thanks for your help Rene!

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 10:35:39AM -0400, Kirk Puppy wrote:
> >         So I built with --enable-vlc, but libreoffice still seemed to
> try and
> >    use gstreamer. When I would try and insert video into Impress I would
> get
> >    a gstreamer missing pluggins error on the terminal.
> >         So then I tried compiling with --enable-vlc,
> --disable-gstreamer-1-0,
> >    and --disable-gstreamer-0-10. Now when I try to insert video into
> impress,
> >    I don't see any errors about gstreamer. But Impress pops up an error
> >    message "The format of the selected file is not supported".  I tried
> mp4,
> >    avi, and mkv. All have the same error message. Is there something
> else I
> >    need for using VLC? Is Gstreamer required?
>
> % grep -ri experimental *
> source/vlc/vlcuno.cxx:    // Experimental for now - code is neither
> elegant nor well tested.
> source/vlc/vlcuno.cxx:    if (!xContext.is() ||
> !officecfg::Office::Common::Misc::ExperimentalMode::get(xContext))
> source/vlc/vlcuno.cxx:    // Experimental for now - code is neither
> elegant nor well tested.
> source/vlc/vlcuno.cxx:    if (!xContext.is() ||
> !officecfg::Office::Common::Misc::ExperimentalMode::get(xContext))
>
> So I guess you want to enable experimental features?
> (in Tools -> Options -> Advanced)
>
> Regards,
>
> Rene