QMediaPlayer on Ubuntu 12.04

mgilorma

I am working on an application that needs to play various sounds for user interaction and am having trouble getting them to work on Ubuntu. I upgraded to QT5 so I could use QMediaPlayer and it works fine on Windows. However when I try to run it on my ubuntu system I get the following error when I try to load the file for playing:

GStreamer; Unable to pause "file: beep.mp3"
Error: "could not open resource for reading"

and I get the following error when I try to play it:

Gstreamer; Unable to play "file: beep.mp3"
Error: "No URI set"

I know the file beep.mp3 is in the correct directory because I check for it using QFile::exists. It seems like it is a GStreamer/Qt interaction problem.

Thanks in advance!

mgilorma

Turns out that I just needed to use the absolute path.

old code:
player->setMedia(QUrl::fromLocalFile("beep.mp3"));

new code
player->setMedia(QUrl::fromLocalFile("/home/test/beep.mp3"));

Easy fix.