[Interest] Qt6 & "multimedia"

Sze Howe Koh szehowe.koh at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 22:28:10 CET 2020


On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 at 05:20, David M. Cotter <dave at kjams.com> wrote:
>
> I see that "multimedia" has been removed, and also i see here that things were being worked on, but no work lately?
>
> My app IS a multimedia app and relies heavily on multimedia for camera input and video playback.
>
> what is the status of this? what is the intended replacement?
>
> Specifically:
>
> is this the case:
> "we wanted to release Qt6 asap, so didn't wait until multimedia was done. we will finish mutimedia and then make it part of Qt6"...
>
> or is it this case:
> "multimedia will no longer be part of Qt. we may in the future support some parts of what used to be called multimedia (WUTBCM), but you will be expected to rewrite anything that depends on WUTBCM"
>
> anyone know?

It's the first case.

https://www.qt.io/blog/add-on-support-in-qt-6.0-and-beyond


> On Dec 8, 2020, at 6:11 AM, Jani Heikkinen <jani.heikkinen at qt.io> wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> We have released Qt 6.0.0 today! Please see more information from Qt 6.0.0 release blog post: https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-6.0-released
>
> Big thanks to everyone involved!
>
> br,
> Jani Heikkinen
> Release Manager
> The Qt Company

Regards,
Sze-Howe


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