Bug ID: JDK-8145602 [macosx] Remove QTKit based media player

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8u171Fixed	9Fixed

It's time to remove QTKMediaPlayer:

- Apple has been trying to get developers to move off of QTKit for several years, we need to comply.

- QTKMediaPlayer has been replaced by AVFMediaPlayer which is more stable, far more capable and is allowed in applications destined for Mac App Store distribution.

- The system requirements for Java 9 are such that we no longer need the QTKit based player. It was only kept around in Java 8 after JEP 206 (8u40) because we had to continue support for 10.7.


Since we now build with a later SDK, we can also remove the messy workarounds in AVFMediaPlayer to get it to compile with the 10.7 SDK.

+1
08-12-2017
Webrev for 8u backport for review: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~kcr/8145602/8u/webrev.00/
08-12-2017
I am requesting to backport the fix for this issue to 8u to remove this legacy code. It is only needed when running on OS X 10.7 (and maybe 10.8 in some cases). As part of the 605.1 WebKit upgrade -- JDK-8187483 -- which was fixed in JDK 10 today, and is in the process of being backported to JDK 8u, we need to move to a newer version of Xcode and macOS. For FX 10 we have moved to macOS 10.12 and Xcode 9.1, and are targeting a minimum of macOS 10.10. We plan to use this same environment for FX 8u going forward. Without this fix we cannot complete the WebKit upgrade for 8u.
08-12-2017
changeset: http://hg.openjdk.java.net/openjfx/9-dev/rt/rev/5552d5deef84 user: ddehaven date: Wed Dec 16 16:13:47 2015 -0800 summary: 8145602: Remove QTKit based media player
06-01-2016
Approved.
18-12-2015
Code review (pending the work Kevin is doing for JDK-8145604): http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~ddehaven/8145602/rt/v0/
17-12-2015
We should bump the minimum SDK to 10.9 as well (it's currently 10.7 even though 10.9 is preferred and what we use for RE build machines).
16-12-2015
Seems like a very good idea.
16-12-2015

Blocks :	JDK-8145604 - Change minimum version of OS X SDK to 10.9
Relates :	JDK-8242531 - [macos] JavaFX OSXPlatform tries to load nonexistent libjfxmedia_qtkit
Relates :	JDK-8279061 - Remove references to obsolete libjfxmedia_qtkit library from build.gradle