Qt Multimedia Compatibility

2024-09-29

Qt switched to FFmpeg as its default media backend on all platforms a while back. That is certainly good news and the right decision in the long run.
However, there are still a few glitches in the FFmpeg backend at the moment. If you encounter a video that Bino cannot play, it may help to try an alternative backend.
For example, on Linux, install the GStreamer backend (the package might be called qt6-multimedia-gstreamer or similar), and run Bino like this:
export QT_MEDIA_BACKEND=gstreamer
bino