Qt - Overlay QGraphicsView over vlc video

[wysota]

I'm asking if you can use a different framework for displaying video.

[m1lhaus]

I think we can, but VLC was nice solution because of multiplatform, codes support, etc. What would you suggest? It needs to work at least on Windows and Linux and work with Python.

I just need to display video and be able to draw on it.

[wysota]

I would suggest to use the multimedia module which is part of Qt.

[m1lhaus]

Would I be able to somehow overlay it by QgraphicsView or use it as background for Qgraphicsview and be able to draw things? I need to annotate faces and other things in video by rectangles, circles, etc.

[wysota]

Would I be able to somehow overlay it by QgraphicsView or use it as background for Qgraphicsview and be able to draw things?

Yes.

http://doc-snapshot.qt-project.org/q...videoitem.html

[m1lhaus]

Problem is that QGraphicsVideoItem is not available in PySide and PyQt 5.0. But I've found it in PyQt 5.0.1 development snapshot so I can try it.

[m1lhaus]

Lately, I've used integrated Phonon player. It's easy to add Phonon video widget as QGraphicsItem through QGraphicsProxyWidget. Works like a charm with K-Lite codec pack on Windows background.