Is it possible to support video playback?

[haltarkon]

Hello. Thanks for your awesome projects (browser, regedt33, ITaskMgr)!

I was able to run your latest release on a some third-party WEC2013 armv7 device, but video playback in the browser is not supported. The site http://html5test.com indicates that there is no video codecs support, and there is a message in the console:

defaultServiceProvider::requestService(): no service found for - "org.qt-project.qt.mediaplayer"

Is it possible to support video playback of at least one of the codecs and what is needed for this?

[datadiode]

I struggled with video support for some time, but to no avail.
I've seen ffmpeg work on WinCE, but don't have sufficient understanding how to plug it into Qt.

[datadiode]

Just came across https://github.com/hdijkema/qtmultimedia-plugin-ffmpeg, which seems promising.
On the other hand, DirectShow should actually work.
The code attached to https://community.toradex.com/t/cannot-playback-video-wec2013-imx6-using-directshow/6408 does work, so what's left is to convince QMake that the platform supports DirectShow, and fix errors which arise from SDK usage and capability differences.

[datadiode]

v0.12.1-datadiode-46-gf1d713a supports video playback through DirectShow, to the extent determined by the installed filters.
Stupid me was messing with what existed in Qt 5.5.1, then noticed that the DirectShow plugin contained in Qt 5.6.3 is ready to build for Windows CE.

[datadiode]

v0.12.1-datadiode-47-ga2f2b2d includes an experimental FFmpeg plugin based on Hans Dijkema's work.
The plugin currently compiles for x86 only, and cannot produce audio output unless it happens to find an otherwise provided SDL2.dll.
Being in lack of a suitable device for testing, I doubt whether it actually works on WEC2013, but whoever wants feel free to give it a try.