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brew install qtmultimedia v6.11.1 (LGPL-3.0-only OR GPL-2.0-only OR GPL-3.0-only) AND (MPL-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause) AND Apache-2.0 AND BSD-3-Clause AND GPL-3.0-only AND MIT

Qt C++ library providing cross-platform audio, video, and camera APIs for multimedia applications.

Why you might care

Part of the Qt framework ecosystem; use this if you're building Qt applications that need to play/record audio, video, or access camera hardware. It's a runtime dependency for Qt-based multimedia apps and provides high-level abstractions over platform-specific media backends (GStreamer on Linux, AVFoundation on macOS, etc.).

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GStreamer FFmpeg libav SDL
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