Reading a video stream, grabbing images from it

[Cruz]

I was hoping to avoid installing gstreamer (or qtgstreamer) on the client side altogether, as this would be some hassle to support all sorts of operating systems. I was hoping to find a solution along the lines of streaming the video out with gstreamer from the server with some standard encoding scheme, and then opening the stream on the client side with some Qt multimedia object. The only object I found that can open a resource URL is QMediaContent, even though I have no idea how I would be able to set the format, or encoding. Will I be able to accomplish opening the video stream this way?

[anda_skoa]

I was hoping to avoid installing gstreamer (or qtgstreamer) on the client side altogether, as this would be some hassle to support all sorts of operating systems.

Right, but it also provides common ground.

The other option might end up to have to implement a new QtMultimedia source with the respective platform's backend technology.

I was hoping to find a solution along the lines of streaming the video out with gstreamer from the server with some standard encoding scheme, and then opening the stream on the client side with some Qt multimedia object.

Right, that's why my other suggestion was to research if QtMultimedia has some standard protocol streaming source implementation, e.g. WebRTC or RTSP, available on both your target platforms.

Another option might be to check if the QWebEngine implementation supports WebRTC and let the server send that.

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