Qt Multimedia in Fugio

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Fugio (and Painting With Light) are both written in C++ and built using the Qt Project, mainly because it offers a (mostly) consistent API across multiple platforms.  It offers a wide range of low and high level functionality, which are often great fun to play with.

Take the Qt Multimedia module, for example.  It’s so high level that I couldn’t resist adding in a couple of nodes that interface with it, so above we have the new SoundEffect node that can load and quickly play WAV audio files when triggered.

Taking MIDI input (or a multitude of different options, a Makey Makey for instance) and linking them up to SoundEffect nodes would rapidly create a simple sound board, but, y’know, triggered off touching various fruits

You can also see the new Filename Node, which is another small helper: click the button and a file open dialog appears.

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And here we have the Multimedia Player Node that can playback more complex media formats such as mp3’s and also video!

While I’ve been putting a lot of development time into a ffmpeg based timeline controlled media playback node,  sometimes you just need a simple way to play media, and these new nodes fit the bill nicely.

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