On 11/11/14 09:47, "Simon Hausmann" <simon.hausm...@theqtcompany.com> wrote:
>On Monday 10. November 2014 09.43.25 Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote: >[...] >> Now really getting to my two cents. Instead of wrapping API >> Qt should make sure the framework can be integrated. E.g. in >> terms of GStreamer provide plugins that allows to easily embed >> video into Qt applications but ask users to use the "native" >> API to manage the pipeline/playback. > >I share that philosophy and support any efforts towards making >integrations >like that easier. In the case of multimedia that can be tricky though, >but >that's not necessarily Qt's fault. It did take a while until gstreamer >had >basic OpenGL texture streaming support, while frameworks on other >platforms >have had it longer. Nevertheless once you can get hold of that, I think >the Qt >Quick Scene Graph API is rather well suited for the graphics integration. Well, if you’re doing a complex multimedia app, this might be the right approach. But for the 90% use case (show a video, play a sound, capture something from the camera), we can’t tell people to write 10 different implementations for the 10 platforms/OSes we support. Cheers, Lars _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development
