qt4's qtwebkit, phonon and gstreamer [0.10 1.0]

[Dmitry Shachnev]

Hi,

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Sune Vuorela <sune at vuorela.dk> wrote:
> On Thursday 11 September 2014 16:37:25 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
> wrote:
>> As you already may know, we have a new qtwebkit version in unstable which is
>> currently FTBFS. This seems to be fixed with the latest patch.
>>
>> But this webkit version links against gstreamer 1.0. We currently have
>> phonon linking against gstreamer 0.10, which seems solvavble.
>>
>> Now Diane found that we also have gstreamer support in Qt4 but with
>> gstreamer 0.10. AFAIU there is no way to make it work with gstreamer 1.0.
>
> Upstream has released a phonon that is compatible with gstreamer 1.0 some time
> ago, I suggest updating to it.
>
> https://community.kde.org/Phonon/Releases/GStreamer
>
> Only QtMulitmedia is a problem, but I'm not sure anyone actually uses it.

+1 for building qt4 without Phonon (that's what Ubuntu does since
2010), and for building standalone Phonon with gstreamer 1.0.

Ubuntu also builds qt5webkit against gstreamer 1.0, maybe we should
follow there as well?

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Dmitry Shachnev