How/where to find the decoder instance from Qt Phonon

Ian Monroe ian at monroe.nu
Mon Sep 13 14:04:04 CEST 2010


On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 4:53 AM, reino.hanninen
<reino.hanninen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm making some test modifications to the Phonon using Qt. My target is to
> be able to pass parameters to my own custom video decoder. The problem
> is that I cannot find the decoder instance from the phonon backend. I assume
> that it should be in the decodebin in Phonon Gstreamer Backend
> (Mediaobject.cpp).
> Is that the case or is it somewhere?
>
> The video itself is playing OK,  and is using my decoder which is a GStreamer
> autoplugin. Do you have any suggestions how I could find the decoder instance?
>
> BR,
> Reino Hänninen

If I understand what you are asking, it sounds like you shouldn't be
using Phonon at all.

It's possible to hack up access to internal data structures, and its
been done before as a stop-gap measure. But it kind of defeats the
purpose of Phonon.

Ian


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