Phonon::VideoWidget embedded inside a QGraphicsProxyWidget

[Andreas Marschke]

Am Samstag 27 März 2010 09:38:55 schrieb Emdek:
> On 27-03-2010 at 06:06:35 Andreas Marschke <xxtjaxx at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Am Freitag 26 März 2010 20:48:35 schrieb Emdek:
> >> On 26-03-2010 at 19:03:57 Alessandro Diaferia <alediaferia at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> wrote:
> >> > As you currently may be aware of, embedding a Phonon::VideoWidget
> >>
> >> inside
> >>
> >> > a
> >> > QGraphicsProxyWidget causes the video appealing awfully while playing.
> >> > I've
> >> > been bouncing here and there on IRC talking with Lucas Murray from
> >>
> >> KWin
> >>
> >> > and
> >> > Mark Kretschmann from Phonon.
> >>
> >> Someone tried this class from Qt 4.7?
> >> http://doc.qt.nokia.com/4.7-snapshot/qgraphicsvideoitem.html
> >>
> >> Maybe this will be best solution (when 4.7 will be released)?
> >
> > This seems to be for QtMultimedia framework that is now shipped with Qt
> > since
> > 4.6(?). But this here is more for the phonon side of things thus maybe
> > not
> > usable in conjunction right?
> 
> Yes, this is part of QtMultimedia, new multimedia API that (as far as I
> know) meant to replace Phonon in Qt (will be dropped with Qt 5.0 or
> something).
> Phonon in Qt will be only maintained, not developed.
> There was somewhere post on labs or somewhere about this...
> 
> Is this a big problem to use it in at least Plasma ()if works as it
> should) if Phonon will be not supported anymore in Qt, only on KDE side
> (and who knows what will happen later, I've not seen any comments from KDE
> side about "killing" Phonon in Qt)?
> If it is usable then I think that it's better to wait for stable release
> and simply use it than reimplementing it (it is very bad for having two
> APIs for one thing...).
> Maybe it's better to work on something else than possibly wasting time?

A nice thing aswell would have been if we were asked before starting to 
shoehorn something different into it aswell. Also how does QtMultimedia 
actually work internally with all the different AudioSystems on Win/Lin/Mac? 

Was there a discussion at all about wether we need a second Multimedia 
Framework in Qt at all?