Let me explain to you with another of my apps, picoplayer that has microtube’s custom built player. No other qt multimedia based player ever came close to microtube or picoplayer and they never will. The microtube’s player is purely based on gstreamer with just the output to the qml completely bypassing the qt apis and that allows microtube for the first-ever >720p playback because of the DASH, because jolla doesn’t want to enable MPEG-DASH in gstreamer so you can’t use the qtmultimedia api and only the microtube/picoplayer can play subtitles and only picoplayer can switch video, audio and subtitle sources purely because they don’t user qt api. Qt multimedia is insanely limiting and only by not using them you can achieve something powerful like microtube/picoplayer and nobody does it because nobody wants to spend time on gstreamer headache. 180°/360° videos came up as a consequence of gstreamer based player because it uses opengl for rendering, where there’s simple shader that displays the video (maps texture to output). So I thought, since the video is the texture, with a simple half/full sphere shader and some variables to control the rotation you can very simply make the 180/360° videos, so i just paid some guy on fiverr (info about him in about page) to make those shaders and voila.
landscape mode*
somehow i really doubt that. Other than Leszek’s which he doesn’t maintain anymore I think I have complete and absolute monopoly
Bruh Leszek left sfos in the dust as a protest of jolla refusing to update qt. No there won’t be any updates, at least respect his protest. The audacity…