Playing video in QT

[vishwas_vincy11]

hi,
Is there any way to play video in qt -S60 other than using phonon as it has not been ported onto S60.


Regards
Vishwas

[james1980]

hi,
I think it is not yet ported to S60. I am not sure but it is possible using phonon only. You should better wait for some new release from nokia.

Regards

[Sorcery-ltd]

While you wait for Phonon, you could just use the native Symbian CVideoPlayerUtility class to play the video.

Mark

[sumitsasken]

Hi
I tried displaying video through CVideoPlayerUtility. But my app crashes while creating instance of CVideoPlayerUtility with "WServ 6 Panic" (Invalid window handle). Below is code snippet how I am instantiating videoplayerutility

RWindow window(CCoeEnv::Static()->WsSession());
const TRect rect(TPoint(0,0), TSize(240,320));
d_ptr->player = CVideoPlayerUtility::NewL(*d_ptr,EMdaPriorityNormal,
EMdaPriorityPreferenceNone,
CCoeEnv::Static()->WsSession(),
*(CCoeEnv::Static()->ScreenDevice()),
window,
rect,
rect);

Please, Suggest me the correct parameters to pass.

[mind_freak]

Hii
I think you can't play any movie in QT without Phonon.And as james1980 in the previous article said that"it is not yet ported to S60",so friend better to wait for some other code version of QT

Regards
Viral Parmar

[sumitsasken]

Hi
I am able to initailise CVIdeoPlayerUtility object with the following code:

RWindowBase *rWindow = static_cast<RWindowBase*>(videoFrame->winId()->DrawableWindow());
const TRect rect(TPoint(0,0), TSize(size.width(), size.height()/2));
QSize  size = videoFrame->size();	
d_ptr->player = CVideoPlayerUtility::NewL(*d_ptr,EMdaPriorityNormal,
			EMdaPriorityPreferenceNone,
		CCoeEnv::Static()->WsSession(),
		*(CCoeEnv::Static()->ScreenDevice()),
		*rWindow,
		rect,
		rect);

where d_ptr is an object of class derived from MVideoPlayerUtilityObserver and videoFrame is a QWidget.

It is showing video on half of the screen. Hope this will be helpful.

Regards
Sumit

[samdutton]

I've tried the suggestion below, but I'm still not clear how to do this. Does anyone have a complete, working example?

I added CMediaEngine and CMediaContainer to my project, as per the instructions here. These compile without any errors.

I then incorporated the following in my code:

    QWidget *videoWidget = new QWidget(this);
    videoWidget->setFixedSize(240,320);
    _layout->addWidget(videoWidget);

    RWindowBase *rWindow = static_cast<RWindowBase*> (videoWidget->winId()->DrawableWindow());
    const TRect rect(TPoint(0, 0), TSize(videoWidget->width(), videoWidget->height() / 2));
    CMediaEngine *d_ptr = new CMediaEngine::NewL(CMediaContainer::NewL(rect));
    d_ptr->player = CVideoPlayerUtility::NewL(*d_ptr, EMdaPriorityNormal,
        EMdaPriorityPreferenceNone, CCoeEnv::Static()->WsSession(),
        *(CCoeEnv::Static()->ScreenDevice()), *rWindow, rect, rect);

This builds without errors, except that I get an 'undefined identifier' error with d_ptr->player. What is player? I can't find it in MVideoLoadingObserver.

I'm not sure that d_ptr should be a CMediaEngine object, or that I've initalized it correctly -- but from what I understand, 'd_ptr is an object of class derived from MVideoPlayerUtilityObserver'.

[gareth_stockwell]

Hi Sam,

You might be interested to know that a Symbian implementation of the Phonon API, written using MMF client APIs such as CVideoPlayerUtility, is now available as part of the Qt 4.6.0 beta 1 release.

At present, it still lacks a few features (notably support for streaming media playback, provision of metadata to the client, and some video-related parameters such as aspect ratio and scaling mode). We are working on these, and plan to have them in place for the 4.6.0 release.

If you want to keep up to date with development of the MMF Phonon backend, you can use the following resources:

• Tasks and bugs in the JIRA database
• The git repository

You can also download daily snapshots (source, binaries and SIS files) of the complete Qt package from here.

Best regards,
Gareth

[gareth_stockwell]

Here is a quick update of the features which have been added to the Phonon backend in each release of Qt for Symbian:
(Of course each release also has various bug fixes - full details are available in the database from http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com by searching for 'mmfphonon' as the component name).

4.6.0

• Audio and video playback from files, including metadata support

4.6.1

• Support for streaming playback
• Playlist handling
• Aspect ratio / scale mode handling
• Fixed problems with video playback on some S60 3.2 devices

4.6.2 (scheduled for release in week 7)

• Enabled audio effects, if supported by the device

Best regards,
Gareth