[mythtv] Replace the QtWebKit code

Mark Spieth mark at digivation.com.au
Sun Mar 13 06:09:40 UTC 2022


On 12/03/2022 6:47 pm, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, 2022-03-11 at 09:22 -0500, Peter Bennett wrote:
>> Does mythmusic use webkit?
> It uses it solely to allow for lookup of artwork.
>
> You might find https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/pull/334 which allows
> building mythmusic without that functionality useful. It has since been
> reverted though,see discussion on
> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/issues/328.
>
> IIRC from memory when I did #334 I couldn't actually get the artwork
> lookup stuff to work in the before state anyway, but I could be
> misremembering (or was using it wrongly).
>
> Personally I don't use artwork lookup in mythmusic (I use a scanner...)
> so my opinion is surely biased but FWIW IMHO if it is holding back the
> transition from QtWebKit to QtWebEngine I don't think dropping the
> feature would be a huge loss, but given there are other critical uses
> of QtWekKit I don't know how useful it would actually be to skip the
> mythmusic part, OTOH I'd much rather have mythmusic without that
> feature than no mythmusic at all...
>
There is also the revisited and supported webkit but I had a hard time 
making that build so I disabled it instead.

This could be looked at again.

Mark




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