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authorYoann Lopes <yoann.lopes@theqtcompany.com>2015-10-26 13:08:14 +0100
committerYoann Lopes <yoann.lopes@theqtcompany.com>2015-10-26 16:51:23 +0000
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Clarify Qt Multimedia requirements on Linux.
Change-Id: Iba7bcea652b66c91f327df4686afda8eab823e23 Reviewed-by: Venugopal Shivashankar <venugopal.shivashankar@digia.com>
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As described in the \l Multimedia overview, Qt Multimedia uses the GStreamer multimedia
framework as the backend for audio and video playback on Linux. The minimum required
- version of GStreamer is 0.10.
+ version of GStreamer is 0.10.24. The 1.x series is also supported.
To build Qt Multimedia, you need the GStreamer library, base plugins, and development
- files for your system. The package names for GStreamer vary between Linux
- distributions; try searching for \c gstreamer or \c libgstreamer in your
- distribution's package repository to find suitable packages.
+ files for your system. To run applications that use Qt Multimedia, you might also need to
+ install the following GStreamer plugins: 'good', 'ugly', 'bad', ffmpeg (0.10), and libav (1.x).
+ These additional plugins contain various codecs for audio and video decoding, as well as the
+ necessary components for using the camera APIs. The package names for GStreamer vary between
+ Linux distributions; try searching for \c gstreamer or \c libgstreamer in your distribution's
+ package repository to find suitable packages.
\section1 Qt WebKit Dependencies