[gst-devel] How to fit in a GPU accelerated rendering plugin

[David Schleef]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 07:58:08PM -0800, Vinay Reddy wrote:
> > There have been GPU-based filters before, and direct-path hardware
> > decoders, but not decoders on the GPU I don't think. You rock :-)
> 
> In case of direct rendering (decoding and display, both being done
> from the GPU), how does video clipping work? As in, how does the GPU
> know what portion of the video to display on-screen? Is the overlay
> color used as a mask or does someone maintain a list of clipping
> rectangles?

It's no different than any other OpenGL application.



dave...