2016-06-19, 16:44
Hi coders !
I am a developer and I love the Kodi project. One other thing that I love (and massively use) is the Qt framework.
So, a couple of weeks ago I've read this article and thought I needed to share it with this community:
https://blog.qt.io/blog/2016/06/03/netfl...ngine-5-7/
Basically with the just released Qt 5.7.0 QtWebEngine component, it is possible to run a sandboxed instance of Chromium and, with the specific bits required at build time, it is possible to stream Netflix.
The beauty of it is that Qt is cross platform, so QtWebEngine can run on Linux, Windows and OSX. Not sure about the QtWebEngine status on Android and iOS.
Another beauty of Qt is that it supports a quite large number of QPA backends, meaning you can run Qt applications on native window providers (e.g. X11, Cocoa, Windows) but also on embedded devices, such as EGLFS (thinking of the Raspberry Pi)
Unfortunately I know nothing about Kodi addons development, so I'm not really the one that can pick this task up.
However I'd just like to hear the experts opinion, and possibly start a discussion on potential issues they can foresee.
For sure this would be a massive addon, with a footprint of around 60-70MB depending on the platform. On the other hand it could probably cover other online streaming services that require some sort of encryption.
I am a developer and I love the Kodi project. One other thing that I love (and massively use) is the Qt framework.
So, a couple of weeks ago I've read this article and thought I needed to share it with this community:
https://blog.qt.io/blog/2016/06/03/netfl...ngine-5-7/
Basically with the just released Qt 5.7.0 QtWebEngine component, it is possible to run a sandboxed instance of Chromium and, with the specific bits required at build time, it is possible to stream Netflix.
The beauty of it is that Qt is cross platform, so QtWebEngine can run on Linux, Windows and OSX. Not sure about the QtWebEngine status on Android and iOS.
Another beauty of Qt is that it supports a quite large number of QPA backends, meaning you can run Qt applications on native window providers (e.g. X11, Cocoa, Windows) but also on embedded devices, such as EGLFS (thinking of the Raspberry Pi)
Unfortunately I know nothing about Kodi addons development, so I'm not really the one that can pick this task up.
However I'd just like to hear the experts opinion, and possibly start a discussion on potential issues they can foresee.
For sure this would be a massive addon, with a footprint of around 60-70MB depending on the platform. On the other hand it could probably cover other online streaming services that require some sort of encryption.
