[Interest] Qt 5.3 multimedia new plugin structure

[Cornelius Hald]

Thanks a lot for the info Yoann, its much clearer now. Also now I know
how to safe some extra kb of my deployment :)

Cheers,
Conny

On Tue, 2014-04-15 at 11:51 +0000, Lopes Yoann wrote:
> On Apr 15, 2014, at 11:01 AM, Cornelius Hald wrote:
> 
> > I've just noticed that we now have plugins/mediaservice and
> > plugins/audio. Anyone knows the difference? At least on Windows both
> > contain audio plugins.
> > 
> > E.g.
> > plugins/mediaservice/qtmedia_audioengine.dll
> 
> This one could be renamed, it's in fact a backend for QMediaRecorder based on QAudioInput (which can only save to WAV). It's available on all platforms.
> 
> > plugins/audio/qtaudio_windows.dll
> 
> This is the actual audio plugin for Windows (QAudioInput, QAudioOutput, QAudioDeviceInfo). It's not really new, it just used to be embedded in the QtMultimedia library itself.
> 
> > Also how are they related to dsengine.dll and wmfengine.dll?
> 
> Plugins in 'plugins/audio' are backends for low-latency audio APIs. That is QAudioOutput, QAudioInput and QAudioDeviceInfo.
> The ones in 'plugins/mediaservice' are backends for QCamera, QMediaPlayer, QMediaRecorder, QAudioDecoder to name only the most importants.
> 
> --
> Yoann Lopes
>