[Bug 767203] New: EGL support is dead code since upstream

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767203

            Bug ID: 767203
           Summary: EGL support is dead code since upstream
    Classification: Platform
           Product: GStreamer
           Version: git master
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: gstreamer-vaapi
          Assignee: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: vjaquez at igalia.com
        QA Contact: gstreamer-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
                CC: bsreerenj at gmail.com, vjaquez at igalia.com
     GNOME version: ---

The EGL support in gstreamer-vaapi relied on dynamic loading of libraries, but
we removed all that when gstreamer-vaapi was merged into gstreamer project.

So nowadays, all the EGL code is dead code. Furthermore, EGL was stopped to be
tested since commit 200b1baa (march 2015), because it marked EGL as GLX
"compatible".

>From my point of view, EGL support is not required right now, since dmabuf is
enough.

We have three options here:

1\ remove all the egl related bits
2\ hardcoding the egl disabling in configure.ac  
3\ (in parallel with 2) resurrect egl support and finish it

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