PySide6.QtMultimedia

• Interval
• QAudio
• QAudioBuffer
• QAudioDecoder
• QAudioDevice
• QAudioFormat
• QAudioInput
• QAudioOutput
• QAudioSink
• QAudioSource
• QCamera
• QCameraDevice
• QCameraFormat
• QImageCapture
• QMediaCaptureSession
• QMediaDevices
• QMediaFormat
• QMediaMetaData
• QMediaPlayer
• QMediaRecorder
• QMediaTimeRange
• QScreenCapture
• QSoundEffect
• QVideoFrame
• QVideoFrameFormat
• QVideoSink

Detailed Description

The Qt Multimedia module provides APIs for playing back and recording audiovisual content

Qt Multimedia is an add-on module that provides a rich set of QML types and C++ classes to handle multimedia content. It contains an easy to use API for playing back audio and video files and rendering those on screen, as well as a comprehensive API for recording audio and video from the systems cameras and microphones.

The functionality of this module is divided into the following submodules:

Qt Multimedia	Provides API for multimedia-specific use cases.
Qt Multimedia Widgets	Provides the widget-based multimedia API.

Getting started

If you are porting from Qt 5 to Qt 6 see Changes to Qt Multimedia .

To include the definitions of modules classes, use the following directive:

import PySide6.QtMultimedia

The module also provides QML types .

Overviews and Important Topics

• Changes in Qt 6

• Multimedia Overview

• Audio Overview

• Video Overview

• Camera Overview

• Supported Media Formats

QML Types

The following table outlines some important QML types.

Type	Description
MediaPlayer	Add audio/video playback functionality to a scene.
CaptureSession	Create a session for capturing audio/video.
Camera	Access a camera connected to the system.
AudioInput	Access an audio input (microphone) connected to the system.
AudioOutput	Access an audio output (speaker, headphone) connected to the system.
VideoOutput	Display video content.
MediaRecorder	Record audio/video from the CaptureSession .
ImageCapture	Capture still images from the Camera.
Video	Add Video playback functionality to a scene. Uses MediaPlayer and VideoOutput types to provide video playback functionality.

C++ Classes

The following table outlines some important C++ Classes

Class	Description
QMediaPlayer	Playback media from a source.
QVideoWidget	Display video from a media player or a capture session.
QMediaCaptureSession	Capture audio and video.
QCamera	Access a camera connected to the system
QAudioInput	Access an audio input (microphone) connected to the system.
QAudioOutput	Access an audio output (speaker, headphone) connected to the system.
QImageCapture	Capture still images with a camera.
QMediaRecorder	Record media content from a capture session.
QVideoSink	Access and render individual video frames.
QAudioSink	Sends raw audio data to an audio output device.

For playback QMediaPlayer , QAudioOutput and QVideoOutput contain all the required functionality. The other classes are used for capturing audio and video content, where the QMediaCaptureSession is the central class managing the whole capture/recording process.

List of Classes

A	QAudio	QAudioBuffer	QAudioDecoder
	QAudioDevice	QAudioFormat	QAudioInput
	QAudioOutput	QAudioSink	QAudioSource
C	QCamera	QCameraDevice	QCameraFormat
I	Interval	QImageCapture
M	QMediaCaptureSession	QMediaDevices	QMediaFormat
	QMediaMetaData	QMediaPlayer	QMediaRecorder
	QMediaTimeRange
S	QScreenCapture	QSoundEffect
V	QVideoFrame	QVideoFrameFormat	QVideoSink