multimedia support techniques and other questions...

[Luca Santini]

Hi Alberto,
thank you for your fast answer! See below...

On 30/07/2012 10:35, Alberto Panizzo wrote:
> On 07/30/2012 10:18 AM, Luca Santini wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> i'm moving my first steps with qt-android (using pre-cooked
>> necessitas-0.3-online-sdk-installer-linux).
>> My need is to port an already existent app (for embedded systems) coded
>> in C++ and QtQuick QML, that needs support for audio/video/camera
>> reproduction.
>> With some mods and cuts, I succeded and currently have it run under
>> android, cool!!!
>>
>> My questions:
>>
>> - my app is totally keyboard driven; but currently i need to touch the
>> display to make my app get focus; only after i can use keyboard... is
>> there a way to force focus to my app?
> What do you mean? to launch the application? to make the soft-keyboard
> come up? to enable an hardware keyboard input?
I have a "real keyboard" (or buttons sending keybord events that kernel 
can intercept) connected to my system;
The problem is my widget hasn't the focus until i tap on the display...

>> - i need camera support (don't need to record, only to show at 25fps)
>> and accellerated multimedia (mp4,mp4,avi etc) playback... i read
>> QtMultimediaKit is not currently supported... can anyone introduce me to
>> the avaiable techniques and workaround to obtain this?
> Till now the workaround is to use directly /dev/video0 or whatever
> video source you have.. you can do directly v4l or you can use
> gstreamer/ffmpeg to get the video frames to show on screen or encode
> videos..
> In this case you need to add gstreamer/ffmpeg as libraries in your
> application.
>
> Remember to add the correct Android permission! (like USE_CAMERA)
> otherwise your application will not be able to open the video source
> in a standard Android device.
Thank You!!
Has anybody any link, for some documentation on the web to obtain this, 
to share ?

> Good luck! I'll have to manage the same in a while..
> Alberto
>