Phonon on Windows

[Lele]

HI all,
I'm trying to compile the "capabilities" example on Qt 4.4 beta1.
I see phonon.lib is needed and not provided, has someone already complied it ?
On tha manual page there's just a short description about that saying that SDK is needed but nothing more.

Thanks for any help

[wysota]

Phonon is part of Qt4.4. You need to enable and compile it before you can use it. When you run configure it should tell you whether phonon will be compiled or not.

[pherthyl]

Yeah phonon on windows is a pain in my experience. Even in the commerical builds of the beta, phonon is not compiled by default, and you have to do it yourself. To get it to work, you need the directshow include files (I think these are in the platform SDK) and the directx sdk which has to be downloaded separately.

I tried it once on a snapshot from several weeks ago, and I managed to compile the ds9 backend, but it didn't work for playing streams. Would just give some cryptic error and refuse to play. Works fine on linux with the separate libphonon.

[Lele]

Hi,
I was able to compile qt 4.4 beta with Phonon support, now the two examples "capabilities" and "musicplayer" compile and run correctly.
The only thing is that I cannot get any AudioOutputDeviceType, is there something else to configure?

Thanks a lot

[coolk]

hey how did u get it to work?
and do u mean by outputdevice?

do u get a backend error?