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

[GStreamer (GNOME Bugzilla)]

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

--- Comment #26 from sreerenj <bsreerenj at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Tim-Philipp Müller from comment #18)
> > After looking at this, I'm leaning to demote vaapisink's rank, to avoid
> > autoplug.
> 
> Let's do it?
> 
> 
> > Though, I'm worried for non-wayland users, they might see performance
> > degradation.
> 
> 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?

I think so.
Everything through dmabuf + glimagesink should be the default.

BTW, vaapisink was giving slightly better performance(both cpu utilization and
memory) than glimgesink last time when I tested.

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