[WebKit-devel] QtWebKit / KDE WebKit and HTML5 video

[Dawit A]

On Wednesday 24 March 2010 14:16:46 Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 March 2010, Dawit A wrote:
> > This issue seems to be fixed upstream, but for most users it will have to
> > wait until Qt 4.7 is released. See
> > https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34631
> 
> That is not fixing anything. It is making it more complicated. QtMultimedia
> a new separate audio framework and is unlikely to coexist peacefully with
> phonon or pulseaudio. On top of that Qt does not yet included any codecs,
> and when they do you are likely to be limited to those codecs instead of
> those you have installed.  If you want audio and video to work you will
> have to fix it yourself, Qt is trapped in an internal powerstrugle on this
> issue.
> 
> * This is based on what we have seen of QtMultimedia in 4.6

I am simply answering the question I was asked the same way I was answered 
when I brought the issue of non-working <video> support in KDE to the 
attention of the qtwebkit developers.

I am well aware of the squabble between Qt Phonon vs KDE Phonon and Phonon vs 
QtMultimedia. Phonon vs the entire world... Fortunately for me, that is 
something I neither care for nor really care to participate in. I just want a 
working HTML 5 video  support in kdewebkit which depends entirely on it being 
correctly implemented in QtWebKit. How that is achieved is besides to the 
point to me personally. Moreover, QtMultimedia 4.7 is most definitely not the 
same thing as the one in 4.6.

Anyhow, even if none of the above is true, there is nothing that can be done 
to fix this issue at the kdewebkit level. This is along the same lines as the 
still missing Java applet support. These things have to be addressed at the 
QtWebKit level.

Regards,
Dawit A.