Generating a waveform from an audio (or video) file?

Question

I\'m trying to understand how I can generate a waveform from an audio (or video) file to display to the user.

I\'ve been googling around for quite a while now and ca

Answer 1

It turns out that QAudioProbe is not supported on OSX – the platform I am working on. Took quite a while (a "Qt while. . .") to ferret that info out so I am posting it here explicitly.

See this document for full details: Qt 5.5.0 Multimedia Backends