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authorMichael Brasser <mbrasser@ford.com>2020-02-22 15:50:40 -0600
committerMichael Brasser <mbrasser@ford.com>2020-03-09 13:24:44 -0600
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Document usage of QT_MULTIMEDIA_PREFERRED_PLUGINS on Windows
Task-number: QTBUG-82300 Change-Id: Ibbd960ef69b59e535af30ac10a238ddcf7634b66 Reviewed-by: Andy Shaw <andy.shaw@qt.io>
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@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ was introduced in Windows Vista as a replacement for DirectShow and other
multimedia APIs. Consequently, WMF plugin in Qt is supported only for
Windows Vista and later versions of the operating system.
+The environment variable \c QT_MULTIMEDIA_PREFERRED_PLUGINS can be used to
+control the priority of the plugins. For example, setting it to
+"windowsmediafoundation" or "directshow" will cause the corresponding plugin
+to be the preferred one.
+
\section1 Limitations
The WMF plugin in Qt does not currently provide a camera backend. Instead,