[SOLVED] Quick question regarding Qt5 package

Zihen · 03-12-2021, 11:36 AM

When I am surfing with qutebrowser, it couldn't display the videos with h.264. It seems like the Qt5 package comes with -current doesn't contain proprietary codecs support.

If the speculation is not wrong, is there a workaround to rebuild the latest Qt5 for proprietary codecs support?

ponce · 03-12-2021, 11:54 AM

yes, first install the proprietary codecs you need (x264 and so on) and then rebuild qt5 using the SlackBuild passing this parameter

Code:

USE_CODECS=yes ./qt5.SlackBuild

Zihen · 03-12-2021, 08:10 PM

I tried navigating to /var/cache/packages/slackware64, and decompressed the qt5-xxx.txz using xz and tar. However, there's no SlackBuild in the 'install' directory. How could I get the SlackBuild?

Seems like there's no qt5 package on SBo-git.

willysr · 03-12-2021, 08:43 PM

qt5 is added to -current already

Zihen · 03-12-2021, 08:48 PM

Yes, I am aware. I am seeking a workaround to rebuild -current qt5 in order to support proprietary codecs.

ponce · 03-13-2021, 12:05 AM

the qt5.SlackBuild and all the needed files are in the Slackware source tree, at /source/l/qt5/

https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackw.../source/l/qt5/

Zihen · 03-13-2021, 12:04 PM

Thanks ponce, I built it successfully after ~9 hours.

I will mark this thread as solved.