How to use the multimedia module in Qt6 to play network media that requires http headers to be set

pbvpdMin

Hi, I'm a QT beginner. I want to try to use QMediaPlayer to play web media that may require setting HTTP headers such as cookies.
I found that I can use QMediaPlayer::setMedia in Qt5 to solve the problem. But QMediaContent has been removed in Qt6, how do I implement similar functionality in Qt6?

SGaist

Hi and welcome to devnet,

Can your show how you are doing it with Qt 5 ?

pbvpdMin

@SGaist
Maybe like this

QMediaPlayer player;
QNetworkRequest req(QUrl("https://example.com/xxx.mp3"));
req.setRawHeader("Cookie", "uid=123456");
player.setMedia(req);
player.play();

I don't have the Qt5.X SDK installed on my computer and haven't verified that the code is available

mchinand

In Qt6, there's no version of setSource() that takes a network request like setMedia() in Qt5. It might work if you add a QUrlQuery to your QUrl; e.g.

QMediaPlayer player;
QUrl mediaUrl("https://example.com/xxx.mp3");
mediaUrl.setQuery({"uid", "123456"});
player.setSource(mediaUrl);
player.play();