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Enable WebRTC on QtWebEngine for Raspberry Pi 3

WebRTC is a web technology to enable peer to peer communication in real-time. It mainly uses to create video conferencing and chat applications using web browsers. In this post, we describe how to enable this technology in QtWebEngine on Raspberry Pi 3 platform. QtWebEngine is an embedded browser component which comes with the Qt framework . This component is based on Google Chromium browser and it supports most of the Chromium features including WebRTC. In PC, WebRTC applications run smoothly on QtWebEngine component. But in Raspberry Pi platform situation is different and none of the WebRTC application is work with the QtWebEngine. The only thing which we can see is a black box in an HTML5 video tag area. At the time of writing this problem exists in Qt version 5.6, 5.7 and 5.8.