[Interest] qtWebengine: Gstreamer support (roadmap)

[Ruei, Eric]

To whom it may concern:
This was originally posted at QT E2E Forum and someone suggested that this is a better place to get specific help.


It looks like the chromium browser uses ffpmsg as the default medium player backend and Samsung is working on a Gstreamer backend. Does anyone know about the medium player roadmap of qtWebengine. Will the qtWebengine support Gstreamer soon?

Best regards,

Eric

[Konstantin Tokarev]

Post by Ruei, Eric
This was originally posted at QT E2E Forum and someone suggested that this is a better place to get specific help.
It looks like the chromium browser uses ffpmsg as the default medium player backend and Samsung is working on a Gstreamer backend. Does anyone know about the medium player roadmap of qtWebengine. Will the qtWebengine support Gstreamer soon?

FWIW, you can use revived QtWebKit, it supports GStreamer

https://github.com/annulen/webkit
http://qtwebkit.blogspot.com/2016/08/qtwebkit-im-back.html

[Ruei, Eric]

Hi, Konstantin:

Thank you very much for your information!
We are still using QT 5.6.0 which contains the old qwebkit and we also uses its demo browser which works better than the qWebengine one does except it does not play youtube video.
Are you saying that the new one will play multimedia video with gstreamer? When will the new qwebkit be available, is it QT5.8?

Best regards,

Eric


-----Original Message-----
From: Konstantin Tokarev [mailto:***@yandex.ru]
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2016 8:40 AM
To: Ruei, Eric; ***@qt-project.org
Subject: Re: [Interest] qtWebengine: Gstreamer support (roadmap)

Post by Ruei, Eric
This was originally posted at QT E2E Forum and someone suggested that this is a better place to get specific help.
It looks like the chromium browser uses ffpmsg as the default medium player backend and Samsung is working on a Gstreamer backend. Does anyone know about the medium player roadmap of qtWebengine. Will the qtWebengine support Gstreamer soon?

FWIW, you can use revived QtWebKit, it supports GStreamer

https://github.com/annulen/webkit
http://qtwebkit.blogspot.com/2016/08/qtwebkit-im-back.html

[Konstantin Tokarev]

Post by Ruei, Eric
Thank you very much for your information!
We are still using QT 5.6.0 which contains the old qwebkit and we also uses its demo browser which works better than the qWebengine one does except it does not play youtube video.
Are you saying that the new one will play multimedia video with gstreamer? When will the new qwebkit be available, is it QT5.8?

You can use any Qt version starting from Qt 5.2, though Qt >= 5.4 is certainly recommended. There is a plan to make a proper release (i.e., not preview or beta of any kind) alongside with Qt 5.8.

You can get latest preview release at https://github.com/annulen/webkit/releases/tag/qtwebkit-tp4

Post by Ruei, Eric
Best regards,
Eric
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2016 8:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Interest] qtWebengine: Gstreamer support (roadmap)

 This was originally posted at QT E2E Forum and someone suggested that this is a better place to get specific help.
 It looks like the chromium browser uses ffpmsg as the default medium player backend and Samsung is working on a Gstreamer backend. Does anyone know about the medium player roadmap of qtWebengine. Will the qtWebengine support Gstreamer soon?

FWIW, you can use revived QtWebKit, it supports GStreamer
https://github.com/annulen/webkit
http://qtwebkit.blogspot.com/2016/08/qtwebkit-im-back.html
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Regards,
Konstantin