I am working on Windows xp and am trying to get a simple video player running.
I am trying to use Phonon::VideoPlayer module for this. I am connecting the signal as
connect(self.player,SIGNAL("finished()"),self.player.deleteLater)
and then , when the Play button is pressed, it makes the following call:
self.player.play(Phonon.MediaSource("C:\\vid.mp4"))
But, this doesn't display the video in the video player widget. Neither can I hear audio. Can anyone help??
I tried using different video file formats but no luck.
Try writing
self.player.play(Phonon.MediaSource("C:\\vid.mp4"))
to escape the \
Phonon::MediaSource mediaSource= Phonon::MediaSource("C:\\vid.mp4");
Try creating media sources like this and also other Phonon objects..
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I am creating a video player if Phonon and Qt. everything is working fine, but when I have a video in my playlist that does not have audio I wish to play another audio.
how can I do that? I mean, how can I detect that the video has no audio?
EDIT: By no audio I meant "no audio channel"
Qt 5 might help you out. Check out Phonon::Gstreamer::MediaObject. The API is similar to the ordinary MediaObject, but with some additional functions. The one you want is audioAvailable().
I'm trying to get mpg123 audio decoder to work with QT on windows. How do i play the decoded audio data at the right speed with Qmultimedia module in push mode. Currently i'm using simple timer to get it to play audio but it's not very efficient way to do it, if I do anything else at the same time audio get all distorted. Is there any better way to send the decoded data to audio output? It would be nice if anyone could point me to any nice examples using Qmultimedia module and Qaudiooutput class. I've tried to figure out QT example project "audiooutput" but it seems that it's also using timer to send audio to output in push mode.. Hope that I'm not too confusing.
I also had to figure that out and I would also suggest using the Phonon framework to do this.
It uses Windows Media Player as host on Windows, QuickTime on Mac and some KDE stuff on Linux.
So it's pretty platform independent.
If you need more low-level functionality, you should take a look into an open-source project called portaudio. It's very easy to use and you can manipulate or even fill buffers from code.
I used it to build an oscillator.
Hope that helps!
Best,
guitarflow
Does anyone have a working example of a video player built using Qt phonon? (in C++ )
See my related question here . I am unable to build one using Python.
A working example of a video player built using Qt phonon: Dragon Player
And here you find the Mplayer created with Phonen too, including all the sources: Phonon MPlayer. You need to login, then you can browse the source code by clicking on "Source" and then "Browse".
EDIT: Oh, and of course the Media Player Example in the Qt Assistant, you should have a look at this, too. It plays both audio and video.
I have written a Simple Video Player using QT. The soure of the player is also hardcoded for this example. See here
Most qt and kde video players these days(not vlc).
Looking for phonon reverse dependencies on ubuntu I find
amarok(music player with videos
support)
minitube
kmplayer
bangarang
dragonplayer
non video players
okular(documents with embeded videos)
web browsers w/html5 video I think
libqtwebkit4
libkonq5
ktorrent(I think torrent film previews)
gwenview(play videos in picture viewer?)
dolphin(file preview)
I want to use Qt to create a simple GUI application that can play a local video file. I could use Phonon which does all the work behind the scenes, but I need to have a little more control. I have already succeeded in implementing an GStreamer pipeline using the decodebin and autovideosink elements. Now I want to use a Qt widget to channel the output to.
Has anyone ever succeeded in doing this? (I suppose so since there are Qt-based video players that build upon GStreamer.) Can someone point me in the right direction on how to do it?
Note: This question is similar to my previous posted question on how to connect Qt with an incoming RTP stream. This seemed to be quite challenging. This question will be easier to answer I think.
Update 1
Patrice's suggestion to use libVLC is very helpful already. Here's a somewhat cleaner version of the code found on VLC's website:
Sample for Qt + libVLC.
However, my original question remains: How do I connect GStreamer to a Qt widget?
Update 2
After some experimentation I ended up with this working sample. It depends on GstWidget.h and GstWidget.cpp from my own little GstSupport library. However, take note that is is currently only tested on the Mac version of Qt.
To connect Gstreamer with your QWidget, you need to get the window handle using QWidget::winId() and you pass it to gst_x_overlay_set_xwindow_id();
Rough sample code:
sink = gst_element_factory_make("xvimagesink", "sink");
gst_element_set_state(sink, GST_STATE_READY);
QApplication::syncX();
gst_x_overlay_set_xwindow_id(GST_X_OVERLAY(sink), widget->winId());
Also, you will want your widget to be backed by a native window which is achieved by setting the Qt::AA_NativeWindows attribute at the application level or the Qt::WA_NativeWindow attribute at the widget level.
Since Phonon is based on gstreamer, the place to look for details is the Phonon source tree (available here: http://gitorious.org/phonon/import/trees/master). For a video player you are most likely going to need a video display widget, such as the gstreamer/videowidget.h (cpp) that in turn used the X11 renderer (gstreamer/x11renderer.h, cpp). The sink used is the xvimagesink, falling back onto the ximagesink if the first cannot be created.
The basic trick is to overlay the VideoWidget with the video output. The X11 handle needed to do this is retrieved using the QWidget::winId method, which is platform specific (as are the sinks, so no biggie).
Also, if overlay is unavailable, a QWidgetVideoSink is used, which converts the video frames into individual frames for the WidgetRenderer class. This class, in turn, makes the current frame available as a QImage object, ready for any type of processing.
So to answer your question - use either overlays (as X11Renderer) or extract individual QImages from the video stream (as QWidgetVideoSink).
VLC version is a QT-based video player (since version 0.99). It allows too to stream or read a stream: You can find all information you need here: http://wiki.videolan.org/Developers_Corner. You only have create an instance of the player and associate it to a widget. Then you have full control on the player.
I have already tested it (on Linux and Windows) playing local music and video files and it works fine.
Give it a try and see by yourself.
Hope that helps.
Edit:
It seems if you want to use VLC, you need to write or find (I do not know if one exists) a GStreamer codec as explain on the videolan wiki. I think I would do that.
I want to create a Qt widget that can play incoming RTP streams where the video is encoded as H264 and contains no audio.
My basic plan for implementation is this:
Create a Phonon MediaSource object (Stream type).
Connect it with a QIODevice subclass that provides the data
Obtain the video data using either:
The JRTPLIB client library
The GStreamer gstrtpbin plugin. This plugin takes care depayloading the packages and decoding the video. Maybe this improves the chances that Phonon will recognize the data.
My environment:
Ubuntu 9.10
Qt 4.6
My questions:
Is my approach a good one? Perhaps I'm overlooking a more obvious or simple solution?
I'm currently experiencing this issue: when trying to play the video stream the state of the MediaObject turns to ErrorState with errorType FatalError. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
Edit
One solution I found is using libVLC in combination with Qt, which I learned about in this thread. Here's a code sample for the interested.
I'm still looking for a Phonon-based solution.
Ideally I would only need to provide an SDP file and job is done.
I was able to get it to work using the libVLC solution. I can't garantuee that this is the best solution though as I simply stopped looking after that.
Here's a link to the libVLC sample.
The way I understand Phonon works at least in Windows is that QT provides a phonon backend plugin for DirectShow (\plugins\phonon_backend\phonon_ds94.dll) and GStreamer in your case. Then you would either obtain or write your own DirectShow filter which can accept RTP streams as a source. DirectShow takes care of the decoding, and Phonon will take care of the rendering.
So if the backend works, the application code is as simple as:
Phonon::MediaObject *media = new Phonon::MediaObject();
Phonon::VideoWidget *video = new Phonon::VideoWidget();
Phonon::createPath(media, video);
media->setCurrentSource(source);
media->play();
Seems that the problem lies with the GStreamer backend accepting RTP as a source. Can you playback that source in standalone GStreamer without any problems?