[Development] The dark side of QtMultimedia - strikes back

[Thiago Macieira]

On Saturday 04 July 2015 18:36:35 Massimo Callegari wrote:
> I've built Qt 5.5.0 for the Raspberry Pi 2, with gstreamer-1.0 support, 
> and installed the GST OMX plugin, for hardware decoding.
> Ran the player example on EGLFS and that's the result: omxplayer works 
> like a charm and QtMultimedia doesn't.
> Attached the player example log with GST_DEBUG="omx:4" on.
> It shows that QtMultimedia is actually using gstreamer + OMX.
> 
> I don't understand if things are tested before declaring them "supported".
> I quote: " A lot of work has also gone into Qt Multimedia. On Linux, we 
> have now added gstreamer 1.0 support and lots of bugs have been fixed 
> for the other platforms."

Can you try the same on a platform that has open source drivers? The problem 
may not be in QtMultimedia at all, but with those OMX plugins or the 
proprietary OpenMAX backend.
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