Use QtAV In Your Projects

For QtAV version >= 1.3.4, QtAV can be installed as Qt5 modules easily. Integrating QtAV in your project is very easy.

First, you have to install QtAV SDK. Read https://github.com/wang-bin/QtAV/wiki/Deploy-SDK-Without-Building-QtAV to install without building QtAV. You can also use the latest code and build yourself. Then go to building directory, you will find sdk_install.sh and sdk_uninstall.sh (sdk_install.bat and sdk_uninstall.bat on windows). Run sdk_install.sh or sdk_install.bat to install QtAV as a Qt module.

OSX is a little different because the shared library id must be modified but sdk_install.sh just simply copy files. you have to run QtAV/tools/sdk_osx.sh. Assume your Qt is installed in $HOME/Qt5.3, then run

qtav_src_dir/sdk_osx.sh  qtav_build_dir/lib_mac_x86_64/QtAV*.framework  ~/Qt5.3/5.3/clang_64/lib

To use QtAV, just add the following line in your Qt4 project

CONFIG += avwidgets

or add the following line in your Qt5 project

QT += avwidgets

(In Qt5, if QtWidgets module and QtAV widget based renderers are not required by your project, you can simply add QT += av)

In your C++ files, add

#include <QtAV>
#include <QtAVWidgets>

Make sure QtAV::Widgets::registerRenderers() is called before creating a renderer.

Try the Example

In the latest code, examples/simpleplayer_sdk is a complete example to show how to use QtAV SDK to write an multimedia app. You can use simpleplayer_sdk.pro as a template.

Link Error

Because qt automatically rename the module if it's name contains Qt, so you may get cannot find -lQt5AVWidgets. As a temporary workaround, please manually rename libQtAVWidgets.so to libQt5AVWidgets.so (windows is Qt5AV.lib or Qt5AV.a) in $QTDIR/lib. -lQt5AV error is the same.