QMediaPlayer on Android

Question

I know that the QMultimediaWidgets are not supported for C++. I am developing a native application for Android as well. Since I don't use QML I need a way of playing my videos in the application. I want to use the QMediaPlayer since I rely on the signals and slots. Is there any manually developed backend which works on Android or a solution how I can render the video myself still using QMediaPlayer?

Is there a way I can developed such a backend myself using ffmpeg or any available program on Android? Will there be any update for this in Qt soon?

Answer 1

QtMultimediaWidgets is not supported on Android so you need to use the QML elements. What you can theoretically try is to embed a QML scene using the MediaPlayer and VideoOutput elements in your QWidget-based app using QWidget::createWindowContainer . Once you see this can be done, you can get your QMediaPlayer object from QML using the mediaObject property of the MediaPlayer QML element. I never tried to do something like this actually.

You may also try to use another plugin like QtAV , but you may lose acceleration.