[Development] The dark side of QtMultimedia

[Thiago Macieira]

On Monday 17 November 2014 00:34:48 Nichols Andy wrote:
> This is a bit of a side issue from the topic at hand, but I am the correct
> person to answer this question so I will.  Regarding VideoOutput on iOS
> there is currently a serious limitation that we have been unable to over
> come.  If you are using the QWidget based API on iOS (and you probably
> shouldn’t be) then everything should work fine.  That is because it is easy
> to embed “native” controls in QWidget hierarchies, and thats what we do for
> QtMultimedia video output (overlay a AVPlayerLayer where the video output
> should go).  However when we would like to render video in a Qt Quick 2
> scene then we need to be able to render the video to a texture.  On OS X it
> is possible to render video to a OpenGL texture from a hidden AVPlayerLayer
> window, and then render that in the Qt Quick 2 scene, but that API is not
> available on iOS.  There is AFAIK currently no high-level API to render
> video from an AVPlayer to an OpenGL texture on iOS.  The work around to
> provide any video at all in Qt Quick 2 is to to instead render to a
> “Window” control which instead falls back to the overlaying the native
> video window surface on top of the QQuickWindow.  Yes it is less than
> ideal, but we are not the only framework with this limitation.

Why do you want to render video non-fullscreen anyway on a device with a small 
screen? Once the user clicks the play button, go to full screen with rotation 
support.

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