> Installing the Windows Media Format SDK version 11 made no difference > when running the player example from mobility 1.1 > > I have the same problem with Phonon. > > Which means if I want to write a cross-platform metadata loader that > works with MP3s on windows, I can't use Phonon or Multimedia. That's > nuts. > > I wish someone would test this particular configuration on windows some > day. > I can't be the only person who is trying to do it.
On further inspection it would seem DirectShow is favouring another mp3 filter which doesn't support any meta-data api. We can force it to use the WMAsfReader filter for files we think might be mp3s the way we already do for http streams. Try the attached patch and see if it helps any. Andrew > On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 10:59 PM, <andrew.den-ex...@nokia.com> wrote: > >> On linux, running demos/player from qtmobility 1.1, > >> I play an mp3 file, and I can see the track's artist - title in the > >> windowtitle, which is obtained from the id3 metadata. > >> > >> If I run the same example on windows, I see nothing in the window > >> title while playing a track. > >> It seems as if mp3 metadata can not be obtained via Qt MultimediaKit > >> in mobility 1.1. > >> > >> I was wondering if it's just my windows setup, or do others have the > >> same issue? > > > > To access meta-data from some formats on Windows you will need the > Window Media Format SDK which is included in Windows SDK versions as > old as 6.0A. This is because the windows media filters (which include > the mp3 parser) use their own interfaces for meta-data access instead > of IAMMediaContent defined in the DirectShow sdk which supports only a > limited set of properties. > > > > Andrew > >
mp3metadata.patch
Description: mp3metadata.patch
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