Qt and Qt Quick on the Freebox Player set-top box
Freebox chose to use Qt and Qt Quick early in 2010 to develop the Freebox Player set-top box UI and applications. At this time the Qt Quick technology was still in active development and we took a gamble when we invested our efforts on making this new UI as we did not know if the technology would be accepted by the community and developed further. I will explain the reasons why this gamble on Qt Quick was worth the risk against competing technologies, how we integrated Qt to use the InterlCE platform capabilities using Lighthouse and Wayland, and how we handled the scalability issues inherent to a TV UI.
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March 4, 2012
Lab Rat
Excellent video, especially with the recent release of the raspberry pi. This give some interesting insights into Qt on set top box type devices.