[webkit-qt] QtWebKit, the multimedia support today and tomorrow.

[Alexis Menard]

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Ademar Reis <ademar.reis at openbossa.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:21 PM, İsmail Dönmez <ismail at namtrac.org> wrote:
>> Hi;
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Alexis Menard
>> <alexis.menard at openbossa.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Linux :
>>>
>>> GSTREAMER :
>>> 109 test cases (74%) succeeded
>>> 19 test cases (13%) had incorrect layout
>>> 16 test cases (10%) were new
>>> 2 test cases (1%) timed out
>>> 9 test cases (6%) had stderr output
>>
>> Even just this result justifies the switch to gstreamer, is there any chance
>> we can enable it for QtWebKit 2.2 too ?
>
> Yes, the plan is to cherry-pick the changes to QtWebKit-2.2
> (multimedia is basically broken on the desktop right now, it can't get
> much worse and this feature is worth the risk).

Broken is a bit rude for QtMultimedia team and for the people who
worked on the multimedia support in WebKit. It works okish, let's put
it like this or better than Phonon ever ever worked.

>
> But our beta will be out today, we'll have to rush this feature a bit
> to have it available for the 2.2.0 release.

No it won't be out, there are few blockers before as I said in the
mail. We *need* a public Mac bot that at least build QtWebKit so that
Apple can test their changes and check they don't break Qt.

>
> Cheers,
>  - Ademar
>
> --
> Ademar de Souza Reis Jr. <ademar.reis at openbossa.org>
> Nokia Institute of Technology
>



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Alexis Menard
Software Engineer
INdT Recife Brazil