[Bug 775698] vaapisink: wayland: mutter cannot import surface into a texture

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775698

--- Comment #24 from Nicolas Dufresne (stormer) <nicolas at ndufresne.ca> ---
(In reply to Christian Stadelmann from comment #23)
> (In reply to Tim-Philipp Müller from comment #18)
> > My understanding was vaapisink is primarily for debugging/testing purposes,
> > and perhaps for specialised applications that know that they will be using
> > VAAPI. No "normal" application will need vaapisink to be autoplugged, will
> > it?
> 
> Isn't VAAPI the only interface to get hardware-accelerated video on intel
> GPUs? My understanding is that VAAPI is required to use codec-specific
> hardware such as for H.264 or H.265/HEVC.

Yes, but this is just about the display sink, which can be replaced by
glimagesink.

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