Re: [qmc2-devel] Upcoming new feature: YouTube video player

[R. R. <ren...@ba...>]

On Thursday 21 April 2011 16:42:00 R. Reucher wrote:
> Also, it's more or less untested on Mac OS X, where I have serious problems
> with the QuickTime back-end. The other Phonon-based video app I know of -
> minitube - does the same thing: it crashes when it starts the video
> playback. So I'm quite sure it has to with my setup and not with QMC2
> itself (probably missing codecs -- the QuickTime back-end reports to be at
> least capable of MP4, FLV format is missing, though). Perhaps someone on
> this list can offer some help on this!?
I meanwhile figured out that the reason for these troubles on Mac OS X is 
simply that my system is not fully supporting OpenGL, because my VirtualBox 
development system isn't a real Mac (and VBox guest additions don't exist yet 
for Mac OS X guests)... the QuickTime back-end's video player apparently 
requires OpenGL, and forcing it to use software rendering isn't an easy task. 
I tried forcing it through the "OpenGL Profiler", but that just works for QMC2 
itself, unfortunately the "custom pixel format" settings aren't transferred to 
the (QuickTime) back-end player.

So, it may actually work, but I'm unable to test it.

Happy Easter, René
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