[Development] Video playback on Ubuntu 16.04

[Massimo Callegari]

Yes ! That's it. Thanks Eike.

My request is toward 5.7.0 though. Targeting 5.8 means other 6 months of broken videos :)


----- Messaggio originale -----
Da: Eike Ziller <Eike.Ziller at qt.io>
A: Massimo Callegari <massimocallegari at yahoo.it>
Cc: Sergio Martins <sergio.martins at kdab.com>; "development at qt-project.org" <development at qt-project.org>
Inviato: Giovedì 2 Giugno 2016 14:30
Oggetto: Re: [Development] Video playback on Ubuntu 16.04


> On Jun 2, 2016, at 12:03 PM, Massimo Callegari via Development <development at qt-project.org> wrote:
> 
> 1) Ubuntu 16.04 delivers Qt 5.5.1
> 2) I am using Qt 5.6.0 official release (Linux x64). Not some PPA, nor Ubuntu stuff.
> 

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-53668 ?

Br, Eike


> 
> ----- Messaggio originale -----
> Da: Sergio Martins <sergio.martins at kdab.com>
> A: development at qt-project.org; Massimo Callegari <massimocallegari at yahoo.it>
> Inviato: Giovedì 2 Giugno 2016 12:00
> Oggetto: Re: [Development] Video playback on Ubuntu 16.04
> 
> On Thursday, 2 June 2016 08:17:08 WEST Massimo Callegari via Development 
> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> is it just me or QtMultimedia 5.6.0 video playback is quite broken on Ubuntu
>> 16.04 ?
>> 
>> I think the reason is that Qt 5.6.0 (and 5.7.0 as well) are still built
>> against gstreamer 0.10, which is quite obsolete now. In fact, I built Qt
>> 5.7.0 myself with gstreamer 1.0 and video playback works as expected.
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> +  -gstreamer <version>  Enable GStreamer support
>    With no parameter, this will attempt to auto-detect GStreamer 0.10 and 
> 1.0. GStreamer 1.0 is used by default when available. Use 0.10 or 1.0 for 
> <version> to override auto-detection.
> 
> 1.0 is the default since Qt 5.6, so it's probably an Ubuntu issue.
> 
> 
> Regards,
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