[Development] The dark side of QtMultimedia

[Knoll Lars]

On 11/11/14 09:47, "Simon Hausmann" <simon.hausmann at theqtcompany.com>
wrote:

>On Monday 10. November 2014 09.43.25 Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
>[...]
>> Now really getting to my two cents. Instead of wrapping API
>> Qt should make sure the framework can be integrated. E.g. in
>> terms of GStreamer provide plugins that allows to easily embed
>> video into Qt applications but ask users to use the "native"
>> API to manage the pipeline/playback.
>
>I share that philosophy and support any efforts towards making
>integrations 
>like that easier. In the case of multimedia that can be tricky though,
>but 
>that's not necessarily Qt's fault. It did take a while until gstreamer
>had 
>basic OpenGL texture streaming support, while frameworks on other
>platforms 
>have had it longer. Nevertheless once you can get hold of that, I think
>the Qt 
>Quick Scene Graph API is rather well suited for the graphics integration.

Well, if you’re doing a complex multimedia app, this might be the right
approach. But for the 90% use case (show a video, play a sound, capture
something from the camera), we can’t tell people to write 10 different
implementations for the 10 platforms/OSes we support.

Cheers,
Lars