Binaries for Hardware Accelerated Qt Multimedia Backend on Raspberry Pi (4.4.0)

This is a package containing binaries for PiOmxTextures 4.4.0. The relevant improvements here over 4.3.0 are:

• Fixed horizontal tearing effect.
• Fixed leaks when starting/stopping and restarting video.
• Added support for 3.5mm analog audio output. It is now possible to select which one to use (hdmi, analog or both) by setting a AUDIO_OUT env variable (possible values are both, local and hdmi; default: hdmi).
• Fixed garbage at the beginning of the video.
• Merged code from omxplayer code base to revision 74aac. This includes update to ffmpeg 2.6.
• Other minor fixes and improvements.
• Port to Qt 5.4.1.

The package contains:

• piomxtextures_pocplayer: sample player which includes tests for animations, loops and commands. Have a look at the sources to understand how it works.
• Qt-rasp-5.4.1.tar: the entire tree of Qt 5.4.1 binaries built for Raspbian (firmware
     b71d7b6, rpath is set to /usr/local/Qt-rasp-5.4.1).
• Qt-rasp-5.4.1_host.tar: the utility to be used on the host when cross-building (built for x86 Kubuntu 13.10).

Current version of the package is 4.4.0: download.

To have a quick look, just place Qt-rasp-5.4.1 in /usr/local into your Pi. Now you can test running qmlvideo, qmlvideofx or piomxtextures_pocplayer from the Qt Multimedia examples. Something similar to this should come up: 

To build using the host tools:

1. Place the Qt libs provided in /usr/local in your Pi filesystem.
2. Place the sysroot of your Pi into /opt/rpi/sysroot (you should then have Qt libs into /opt/rpi/sysroot/usr/local/Qt-rasp-5.4.1).
3. Place the host tools in /usr/local.
4. Place the Linaro toolchain (https://github.com/raspberrypi/tools/tree/master/arm-bcm2708/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-raspbian) in /opt/rpi (which means you should have /opt/rpi/gcc-linaro-arm-linux-gnueabihf-raspbian).
5. You should be done. 

I tested on a Ubuntu 15.04 64 bit and the procedure worked, just be sure to use the 64 bit toolchain (in the same position) and add compatibility libs (qmake is a 32 bit binary).

Bye! ;-)

NOTE: Please notice that the provided binaries contain both the gstreamer plugin (the default unaccelerated Qt multimedia plugin) and the PiOmxTexures (POT) plugin. You'll have to ensure that your app uses POT to run and not gstreamer. To avoid confusion, you can simply remove (or move away) the gstreamer plugin from the default path (/usr/local/Qt-rasp-5.4.1/plugins/mediaservice).