[Qt-interest] VLC on Phonon

[Jason H]

My understanding the the back ends are incompatible. Please forgive me if any of what I am about to say is in correct, but the last time I looked into it I remember it was something like this...
VLC and Phonon both use FFMPEG but VLC uses FFMPEG directly and does not expose the things as FFPMEG/Phonon does. While you could use VLC it would require someone to write a controlling module for the out-of-process VLC app. However if both your system and VLC are using FFMPEG, then what is the point?  But I think the real issue here is how your system's FFMPEG is compiled. VLC might have some additional codecs compiled in? So in the end, I don't see why this VLC backend is needed. When I realized this, I put more time into getting FFMPEG properly config'd and compiled, and got a usable result.

What is the motivation for VLC?



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 From: Daniel França <daniel.franca at gmail.com>
To: qt-interest <qt-interest at trolltech.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] VLC on Phonon
 

Nobody is using Qt Phonon with VLC?
Is this possible? Or I can use VLC only with KDE-Phonon?



2011/11/27 Daniel França <daniel.franca at gmail.com>

Anyone?
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>2011/11/23 Daniel França <daniel.franca at gmail.com>
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>Hi all,
>>I'm developing a video player application using Qt4.7.4 and Phonon.
>>I did some tests using QuickTime backend on Mac, but it's doesn't seem good as I want these.
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>>For example. I'd to install flip4mac to run wmv files, but even with that the seekslider doesn't work (Not even in QuickTime player)
>>So I decided to move to another backend, specfically to VLC backend.
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>>But I'm googling for some examples to change the backend on Mac to VLC with no success.
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>>I tried to download de vlc-phonon src, but I still can't compile that, tried to install kde-Phonon via brew, no success...
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>>Looked at VLC developers corner and didn't find anything too... (It only says that VLC can be used as backend for Qt Phonon).
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>>Anyone has any tips or websites to recommend to do that?
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>>Anothers suggestions are welcome too.
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>>Best Regards,Daniel França
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