[Interest] qtWebengine: Gstreamer support (roadmap)

[Konstantin Tokarev]

07.10.2016, 16:10, "Ruei, Eric" <e-ruei1 at ti.com>:
> Hi, Konstantin:
>
> Thank you very much for your information!
> We are still using QT 5.6.0 which contains the old qwebkit and we also uses its demo browser which works better than the qWebengine one does except it does not play youtube video.
> Are you saying that the new one will play multimedia video with gstreamer? When will the new qwebkit be available, is it QT5.8?

You can use any Qt version starting from Qt 5.2, though Qt >= 5.4 is certainly recommended. There is a plan to make a proper release (i.e., not preview or beta of any kind) alongside with Qt 5.8.

You can get latest preview release at https://github.com/annulen/webkit/releases/tag/qtwebkit-tp4

>
> Best regards,
>
> Eric
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Konstantin Tokarev [mailto:annulen at yandex.ru]
> Sent: Friday, October 07, 2016 8:40 AM
> To: Ruei, Eric; interest at qt-project.org
> Subject: Re: [Interest] qtWebengine: Gstreamer support (roadmap)
>
> 07.10.2016, 15:36, "Ruei, Eric" <e-ruei1 at ti.com>:
>>  To whom it may concern:
>>
>>  This was originally posted at QT E2E Forum and someone suggested that this is a better place to get specific help.
>>
>>  It looks like the chromium browser uses ffpmsg as the default medium player backend and Samsung is working on a Gstreamer backend. Does anyone know about the medium player roadmap of qtWebengine. Will the qtWebengine support Gstreamer soon?
>
> FWIW, you can use revived QtWebKit, it supports GStreamer
>
> https://github.com/annulen/webkit
> http://qtwebkit.blogspot.com/2016/08/qtwebkit-im-back.html
>
> --
> Regards,
> Konstantin

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Regards,
Konstantin