pyQt5 issues using QtMultimedia

[Phil Thompson]

On 20/11/2023 18:43, Corey Hartley wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been experiencing some issues using the latest version of pyQt5
> (5.15.10), specifically when importing the QtMultimedia module.  I've 
> been
> receiving the following error:
> 
>> declarative_multimedia.dll: The specified module could not be found.
>> 
> 
> A coworker and I have reproduced this on both of our machines, which 
> makes
> us think that it isn't just an issue with a specific install (we are 
> both
> using Windows 11).  I haven't been able to find much information 
> elsewhere
> on what this issue could possibly be.  I have started to assume that 
> there
> is potentially a  missing dependency `dll` that I'm missing somewhere?
> 
> I've used an application called "Dependency Walker" to try to see if 
> I'm
> missing anything, and it hasn't been able to find 
> qt5multimediaquick.dll,
> which it claims is used by declarative_multimedia.dll. I'm currently in 
> the
> process of attempting to build pyQt5 from the source code to see if I 
> can
> find that DLL and potentially use it, although not an ideal solution as 
> we
> would need to duct tape that file into our build in some way going 
> forward.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

I doubt it is anything to do with PyQt itself. Qt5MultimediaQuick is 
missing from PyQt5-Qt5 - you can probably just copy it from a another Qt 
installation. I have no idea what declarative_multimedia.dll is.

Phil