[Development] The dark side of QtMultimedia

[Thiago Macieira]

On Thursday 13 November 2014 07:56:31 Knoll Lars wrote:
> On 13/11/14 08:40, "Thiago Macieira" <thiago.macieira at intel.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> >On Thursday 13 November 2014 07:21:38 Knoll Lars wrote:
> >
> >> Yes, this could also simply be our qtmultimedia unit tests. Run the
> >>
> >>tests
> >>
> >> on your target platforms and if they pass it should be reasonably safe
> >>
> >>to
> >>
> >> assume that things are working. Of course we’re not there currently, our
> >> coverage for QtMM is not good enough afaict.
> >
> >
> >QtMultimedia's own unit tests use QtMultimedia, so it doesn't isolate the
> >problem. We need tests that use *only* the lower-level multimedia API,
> >like 
> >GStreamer.
> 
> 
> Usually, I’d say that should be gstreamer’s job. They should provide unit
> tests that allow testing a gstreamer implementation on a linux
> system/board.

Agreed, and you'd expect that a decent Linux distribution runs them to be sure 
that they've installed everything correctly.

But we're discussing a non-decent state already. If we could provide a handful 
of manual test scripts that let people check their conditions, we can isolate 
the problem and convince them it's not our fault.

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Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com
  Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center