Play a Live video Stream using Qt

Question

Given below is the code for playing a video file using Qt. Instead of playing the video I want to play a live video stream from an IP Camera. Another approach is to embed the VLC Player in Qt and a link for the project is provided here. The problem is I do not know how to include the player in Qt. So how do I proceed?

#include <QApplication>
#include <QtMultimediaWidgets/QVideoWidget>
#include <QtMultimedia/QMediaPlayer>
#include <QtMultimedia/QMediaPlaylist>
#include <QFile>
#include <QHBoxLayout>
#include "DemoPlayer.h"
int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication a(argc, argv);

    QWidget *widget=new QWidget;
    widget->resize(400,300);

    QMediaPlayer *player=new QMediaPlayer;
    QVideoWidget *vw= new QVideoWidget;
    QHBoxLayout *layout=new QHBoxLayout;

    layout->addWidget(vw);
    widget->setLayout(layout);
    player->setVideoOutput(vw);
    player->setMedia(QUrl::fromLocalFile("C:/Users/Administrator/Desktop/1minute.mp4"));
    player->play();
    widget->show();
    qDebug()<<player->availableMetaData()<<player->currentMedia().canonicalUrl();

    return a.exec();
}

The above code works just fine....please make your question a bit more clear — Metoo
Have you tried LibVLC wiki.videolan.org/LibVLC_SampleCode_Qt — Metoo
@Metoo I have, cannot add it to the app, I am new to Qt so I don't know how to do so. If you know how to add it, then please tell me how to do it, or if there exists any tutorial tell me, because I cannot find any. — praxmon
Are you on a system supporting X11 ie Linux, Mac (to some extent)? Btw the link provided by metoo is already a tutorial by itself... — UmNyobe

Wagmare Wagmare · Accepted Answer · 2014-02-03T06:55:34

follow this code . you can embed a widget inside another widget using a valid window id . How to show output video of other application in Qt? you can use the qx11embedwidget and qx11embedwidgetcontainer QX11EmbedWidget and QX11EmbedContainer

Play a Live video Stream using Qt

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