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| author | Leena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@theqtcompany.com> | 2015-12-17 15:19:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Leena Miettinen <riitta-leena.miettinen@theqtcompany.com> | 2015-12-17 14:38:41 +0000 |
| commit | 533c3c90b089f39943fa7349e4de13efe07eb0c0 (patch) | |
| tree | 13a22f20d7de9715d5a74fabbf4e4b0d135c7afa /src/webengine/doc/src/qtwebengine-platform-notes.qdoc | |
| parent | 1c547c6a4cafee9b26672c1fbb26b26036b62f4a (diff) | |
Doc: Audio and video codec support
Task-number: QTBUG-48741
Change-Id: I2676661ec389e6b5c0bd775302fcc3ee4a4bfde6
Reviewed-by: Allan Sandfeld Jensen <allan.jensen@theqtcompany.com>
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diff --git a/src/webengine/doc/src/qtwebengine-platform-notes.qdoc b/src/webengine/doc/src/qtwebengine-platform-notes.qdoc index cac364a7e..555db2a2d 100644 --- a/src/webengine/doc/src/qtwebengine-platform-notes.qdoc +++ b/src/webengine/doc/src/qtwebengine-platform-notes.qdoc @@ -99,4 +99,21 @@ \code --ppapi-flash-path=./libpepflashplayer.so \endcode + + \section1 Audio and Video Codec Support + + Qt WebEngine supports the MPEG-4 Part 14 (MP4) file format only if the required proprietary + audio and video codecs, such as H.264 and MPEG layer-3 (MP3), have been enabled. Proprietary + codecs can be enabled by passing the following option to qmake: + + \code + qmake WEBENGINE_CONFIG += use_proprietary_codecs + \endcode + + \warning When distributing proprietary codec libraries, you must acquire licenses for them. + + \l FFmpeg is a cross-platform solution to record, convert, and stream audio and video. It can + be configured for use with several codecs, which rises licensing issues during distribution + with the codec libraries. For some codecs, open source implementations, such as \l {OpenH264}, + are available. */ |