[Interest] Bundle multimedia codecs with application

[Jean-Michaël Celerier]

This project does just that : https://github.com/vlc-qt/vlc-qt/



On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 11:41 AM Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah. The trivial approach, where you just create a native window handle
> for a widget and point libvlc to it, isn't going to work with QML. It's
> going to be non-trivial.
>
>
> On 04/02/2019 12:20, Bernhard B wrote:
> > Hi Nikos,
> >
> > thanks for your reply. I guess I'll then give libvlc a shot...just have
> > to figure out whether it's possible to use it also with QML instead of
> > QWidgets.
> >
> > Thanks for your help,
> > Bernhard
> >
> >
> > Am So., 3. Feb. 2019, 23:17 hat Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at gmail.com
> > <mailto:realnc at gmail.com>> geschrieben:
> >
> >     No. You can't load custom codecs.
> >
> >     I use libvlc directly in one of my projects. No wrappers or anything.
> >     Just the plain C API. It works like a charm.
> >
> >
> >     On 03/02/2019 22:47, Bernhard B wrote:
> >      > Hi all,
> >      >
> >      > is it possible to bundle multimedia codecs with a Qt application?
> >     I want
> >      > to use QtMultimedia to play all sort of different video formats.
> >      > Unfortunately, QtMultimedia doesn't recognize all of the video
> >     formats
> >      > out of the box, which requires me to install a codec pack (e.q
> >     K-Lite
> >      > Codec pack) first.
> >      >
> >      > As I am not a big fan of external depenendencies, I would prefer
> to
> >      > bundle the necessary codecs with my application. Is that somehow
> >     possible?
> >      >
> >      > I also looked at other projects like QtAV or vlc-qt (to replace
> >      > QtMultimedia), but at some point I always ran into playback/API
> bugs
> >      > (which I couldn't fix myself) . So I am back at QtMultimedia,
> >     which uses
> >      > a well tested interface that just works. The only thing I am not
> >     happy
> >      > about are the codecs that need to be installed first. Is there a
> >      > possibility to bundle them with the application?
>
>
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