[Bug] Gallery and QML Mediaplayer cannot play 36c3 videos
asked 2019-12-31 14:05:06 +0200
Gallery and the QML Mediaplayer are not able to play 36c3 videos. But sailfish-browser is able to play webm.
- download a 36c3 video (like https://cdn.media.ccc.de/congress/2019/webm-sd/36c3-11223-deu-eng-fra-Opening_Ceremony_webm-sd.webm)
- open it via a file browser
- Then -> Gallery is started (because of mime settings in the app's desktop file)
Expected: Video is played Actual behavior: Error message in Gallery
- Open the browser
- Start the video via file:///-url
- Then -> Video is played
if you try to start mp4 in the browser it also fails because of missing libraries!
I also tried to play a video via Qt.openUrlExternaly. This works with stream ("https://") videos because then the browser is started. It fails with local files because then the Gallery app is started to play.
I also tried qml Video (https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qml-qtmultimedia-video.html) but it fails on both - stream and file - too.
I expect that these video fail because of multi lang. There should be some older bug from me somewhere...
Pretty sure the browser is still on its own software codecs, as performance on Youtube is still bad with webm/vpX. I too am curious what is keeping the new fancy HW acceleration from playing these 36c3 videos.
attah ( 2019-12-31 14:11:38 +0200 )editdid you tried lls?
coderus ( 2019-12-31 15:18:10 +0200 )edit@coderus: hm I try to play offline videos out of my new congress app - with harbour-tools. And that does not work. Of course lls would do but this is not found on an out of the box device :-(
cy8aer ( 2019-12-31 23:35:56 +0200 )editbut if it can then you can steal some code of it
coderus ( 2020-01-03 11:53:52 +0200 )edit