FFmpeg VS LibVLC VS Others

DeanWinchester

Hello,

I am trying to create a basic media player.

But I do not want to use the MediaPlayer from Qt5 because it relies on the codecs installed on the computer.

I tried for several days to install FFmpeg in my Qt project without any success. I was kinda lost in that huge lib...

Now I start to think about LibVLC and also VLC-QT.

Which lib would you recommend ?

I know my question is kinda vague but guys I am really lost, I tried so many thing without any results ! I have never been this frustrated coding !

Thank you all !

mrjj

Hi
I fooled around quickly with
https://vlc-qt.tano.si/
and found it pretty smooth
It even has good samples
https://github.com/vlc-qt/examples/tree/master/simple-player
with a mini player to start on.

So my vote goes to VLC-QT but to be fair I have not tried FFmpeg.

Why not try to download it and see how fast u can have the example running.
Also doc seems ok and it has custom widgets to just use.

SGaist

Hi,

To add to @mrjj there's the QtAV project that proposes to interface with ffmpeg which might be easier than writing your own backend. Working with ffmpeg and Qt is completely doable though.

DeanWinchester

Thank you both !

I tried to use those two librairies / project.

I did not succeed.

I am used to Unix development and now I am coding on a Windows computer. For the last 2 weeks I was practicing Qt on Visual Studio but I had a lot of problem with that.

So now I use the Qt ide.

I don't really know how to use those lib with windows, I kinda miss GCC and the terminal, so simple ! Also I have a lot of trouble trying to build binaries using CMake. Even QMake does not work for VLC-QT lib.

Anyway I believe those libs work fine. I just need to find how use them properly on windows / Qt ide

SGaist

What error are you getting exactly ? What have you tried ? What has failed ?