QtMultimediaKit ignores Wi-Fi connection
TL;DR QtMultimediaKit streams files only over 3G :(
I’m having some issues with QtMultimediaKit and Audo/Video elements on Symbian (C7-00 with Anna update). The problem occurs when I try to play a video (or an audio file) from an URL— app tries to activate 3G connection and download files over that. If I run the app in ‘Offline’ profile an ‘Access denied’ popup is shown while the rest of the app follows the profile and works accordingly (XMLHttpRequests issued from QML).
I tried with both Video and Audio QML elements as well as QMediaPlayer class from C++, unfortunately, it fails in all cases.
- Item {
- Audio {
- id: audioPlayer
- muted: false
- autoLoad: true
- source: "http://dl.dropbox.com/u/61185/Spiralling.mp3"
- }
- Button { text: "Play"; onClicked: audoPlayer.play() }
- }
After a minute or so it should report NetworkError and ‘Symbian:-34’ in the ‘errorString’ property, which apparently stands for ‘network connection closed’.
Am I doing something wrong? Because I can’t see why it’s not working :(
Also, possibly unrelated, I couldn’t include ‘bearer’ and ‘multimedia’ modules in the same app, it spits some errors regarding QNetworkConfiguration being an incomplete type or something like that.
2 replies
Hi, can you check “Settings->ApplicationSettings->Videos->Access Point In Use” and see if it will use wifi if you set that manually? I believe that you should be able to modify the access point to use via mobility APIs also, but I don’t personally know how (bearer management APIs or system info APIs I’d guess).
If you can’t use bearer and multimedia together, that sounds … like a bug. Can you post the full errors you see when you attempt to do so? I assume that you have all the required capabilities added to your .pro file?
That really did help, I wasn’t even aware of those settings (they do feel a bit unintuitive).
https://gist.github.com/1391710 — the other error occurs when I include bearer and multimedia APIs (MOBILITY += bearer multimedia) in the .pro file (with NetworkServices, ReadUserData and WriteUserData capabilities) and then #include <QMediaPlayer> and #include <QNetworkSession>. I guess the first few lines of the log say everything… I should have read them earlier :)
Thank you for your help!
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