[Interest] Qt6 porting guidance: QSound? QAudioFormat: endian, codec?

[David M. Cotter]

i take it also that "unsignedInt" is also no longer supported?
that it's always signed?

> On Jul 7, 2021, at 1:17 PM, Doris Verria <doris.verria at qt.io> wrote:
> 
> Hi, 
> 
> You can play sounds using QSoundEffect, which replaces QSound. If low-latency is not important, you can always use QMediaPlayer.
> QSoundEffect currently supports PCM audio only, more specifically, the WAV format.
> 
> QAudioFormat now always expects samples in the host endianness, so you will need to convert the samples if they are in a 
> different byte order than that of the host platform. 
> 
> QAudioFormat supports PCM audio formats only, so there's no need to 
> set the codec. You can still specify the channel count, sample rate, and the sample format (it supports 8bit unsigned, 16 and 32bit 
> signed Int, as well as floating point formats).
> 
> For an overview of Multimedia in Qt6, have a look at this blog post from Lars:
> https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-multimedia-in-qt-6
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Doris
> 
> 
> 
> On 7.7.21, 9:26 PM, "Interest on behalf of David M. Cotter" <interest-bounces at qt-project.org on behalf of dave at kjams.com> wrote:
> 
>    requires mac/windows solution (no need for ios/android/linux)
> 
>    how do i "just play a sound" ? 
>    seems QSound is gone?
> 
>    how does one specify endian format of a PCM stream?
>    format.setByteOrder() is gone?
> 
>    how does one specify that the stream is in fact PCM?
>    format.setCodec() is gone?