On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 06:18:07PM +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > Hi, > Developers will use what's simplest for them, as long as it works well. > If GStreamer offers a really simple way to play media, and developers > can easily integrate it into their application, then they'll use it. If > there's a nicely integrated Qt widget that people can use to play a > video or sound in their apps, which does everything they need and works > kind of well, and perhaps it'd be a bit trickier to integrate the direct > GStreamer equivalent, then they'll probably use the Qt abstraction.
One good reason was presented here a couple of hours ago. That is providing easy integration with other Qt features, namely QGraphicsView. If your UI is implemented using items in a QGraphicsView and you want your video to play nicely along with the other items that are there. While it is pretty simple to get gstreamer to display a video in an X window, gstreamer does not know anything about QGraphicsView and it would somewhat troublesome for the developer to invent the glue needed all by himself. _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
