[Qt-interest] Integrate Flash Player on OS X and/or Linux

[Thiago Macieira]

Sandro Ducceschi wrote:
>Hi everyone
>
>I'm trying to figure out how i could integrate the proprietary flash
>player into my application without having to use a webkit instance.
>
>I see that under windows i can use the ActiveQt Framework to achieve
>this easily.
>
>Is there an equivalent for that under OSX and/or Linux ? Has anyone
>tried this yet and if so could they share an example?

Yes, you have to use the NPAPI, which stands for Netscape Plugin API.

That's what WebKit uses to load Netscape plugins (like the Flash player) 
into the web page.

If you don't want the web engine, you'll have to do loading yourself.

Note, in special, that the official Adobe Flash Player is very broken in 
terms of the NPAPI. It expects to be loaded by Mozilla Firefox, and 
everyone else trying to use it (including QtWebKit) have to cope with 
Adobe's bugs.

-- 
Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) nokia.com
  Senior Product Manager - Nokia, Qt Software
      Sandakerveien 116, NO-0402 Oslo, Norway
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