1 Qt uses the Phonon cross-platform multimedia framework to play common

     2 multimedia formats.

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     4 Applications can be written to take advantage of the native multimedia

     5 technologies on each platform via a consistent cross-platform Qt API.

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     8 Some of the examples in this directory can be run from the example launcher;

     9 others can only be used from within Qt Designer.

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    11 Documentation for these examples can be found via the "Tutorial and Examples"

    12 link in the main Qt documentation.

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    14 Finding the Qt Examples and Demos launcher

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    17 On Windows:

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    19 The launcher can be accessed via the Windows Start menu. Select the menu

    20 entry entitled "Qt Examples and Demos" entry in the submenu containing

    21 the Qt tools.

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    23 On Mac OS X:

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    25 For the binary distribution, the qtdemo executable is installed in the

    26 /Developer/Applications/Qt directory. For the source distribution, it is

    27 installed alongside the other Qt tools on the path specified when Qt is

    28 configured.

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    30 On Unix/Linux:

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    32 The qtdemo executable is installed alongside the other Qt tools on the path

    33 specified when Qt is configured.

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    35 On all platforms:

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    37 The source code for the launcher can be found in the demos/qtdemo directory

    38 in the Qt package. This example is built at the same time as the Qt libraries,

    39 tools, examples, and demonstrations.