How to play youtube video with Qt 4.8? (downloaded video or url)

MaximAlien

Hello,

I'm having problems playing video downloaded from Youtube. I tried Qt example VideoDemo, but most of video formats are not supported (probably some missing correct codecs).

What solution would you suggest? Maybe simply load video in QWebView and then play (using HTML5)?

Thanks in advance.

tucnak

Heya ~MaximAlien

There are two different solutions:

Use WebKit here (QWebView, I hope), but it requires internet connection
Use Phonon playback here, I hope it should be okay

MaximAlien

Thanks for answer tucnak.

Tried Phonon, but there are issues with codecs, my app is cross-platform, so I need simple and stable solution,

I think I'll try HTML5 with WebKit, Hope it'll work.

tucnak

[quote author="MaximAlien" date="1374000746"]Thanks for answer tucnak.

Tried Phonon, but there are issues with codecs, my app is cross-platform, so I need simple and stable solution,

I think I'll try HTML5 with WebKit, Hope it'll work.[/quote]

Hm, codec problem can be solved with converting the video to available formats. Phonon is quite cross-platform, can't get point.

Peppy

You can also allow to use WebKit plugins (Netscape Plugin) on currently running system (i.e. Flash)....

MaximAlien

Thanks for suggestion Peppy. I'll try Flash too.

leon.anavi

Have a look at the article "Embed YouTube Video in QWebView":http://qt-project.org/wiki/Embed_YouTube_Video_in_QWebView at our wiki.

MaximAlien

Thanks for this article leon.anavi! I'll definitely try it.

leon.anavi

[quote author="MaximAlien" date="1374044338"]Thanks for this article leon.anavi! I'll definitely try it.[/quote]

You are welcome. The article is a bit older so it has been written and tested with Qt 4.

MaximAlien

I use Qt 5.0.2 msvc for testing and when page was loaded it says that "The video is currently unavailable".

Probably I'll try HTML5 for this.

MaximAlien

That's strange, I also tested YouTube View Example from Examples in Qt 5.0.2 and the same issue occurs.