[Qt-interest] running phonon video from separate process?

[Bart van Deenen]

Hi all

We're building an application that among other things has to be able to
show videos, all kinds of videos, for weeks at a time, non-stop.

Now the consensus here is that these video libraries always leak memory,
and always crash. 

Would it be possible to fork/exec the phonon stuff into a separate
process, and render its output onto QWidgets in the main application
window? This way, if the phonon backend hangs or eats all our ram, we
can just kill and restart the child process.

The hard thing to me seems to be redirecting the rendering of the child
process. I'm familiar with native window id's on Linux and Windows, and
have used those from AWT Java displays. How should I proceed with this
in Qt?

Thanks

Bart van Deenen

Infologic.nl