[Interest] Is it possible to have video files bundled as an app resource and have them played by Qml?

[Sean Harmer]

Hi,

On 07/11/2016 08:40, Alexandru Croitor wrote:
> Hi,
>
> from Qt 5.4.0 changes file:
>
> rcc now supports an optional, two-pass compilation that improves build
> times for large resource bundles. This feature can be enabled by adding
> "CONFIG += resources_big" to your .pro file. Note that this feature may
> interfere with builds that enable link-time code generation or other
> optimization techniques.

Or you can use the -binary option of rcc to keep the resource file 
separate from your application. Comes in handy if you need to ship 
different resource sets for different configurations/customers/themes 
etc. I use this a lot with HDR environment maps for e.g.

Cheers,

Sean

>
>
>
>> On 06 Nov 2016, at 23:57, Nuno Santos <nunosantos at imaginando.pt
>> <mailto:nunosantos at imaginando.pt>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was trying to make a Qt mobile app to reproduce a video but I
>> couldn’t add the video as a resource to be used by qml. The resource
>> compiler failed with an error related with file size and I wasn’t even
>> able to reproduce it.
>>
>> Is is possible to add big video files as a resource without being
>> processed by the resource compiler to be used by qml?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Nuno
>>
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