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QtMultimedia, FFMpeg, Gstreamer: comparing multimedia frameworks

Update Feb 7, 2019: despite being written ten years ago and last updated three years ago, this article content remains correct, and still describes the actual situation with the multimedia frameworks. During the last few years I had developed several multimedia applications. The applications were open-source, free and cross-platform, and therefore they needed the multimedia […]

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Usability of Qt5 QMediaPlayer for multimedia applications

I have developed several multimedia applications using Qt4 and Qt5. In past, when creating Karaoke Lyrics Editor with Qt4, I initially used Phonon, which was offered by Qt4 multimedia framework. Unfortunately I quickly found the issues with this framework, making it less useful for my purpose:

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