[gst-devel] OpenGL context: GTK X overlay v/s SDL v/s Clutter v/s Wx

[Alexandre Quessy]

Hello,

2010/4/21 Filippo Argiolas <filippo.argiolas at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Alexandre Quessy <alexandre at quessy.net> wrote:
>>> If I recall correctly those examples were never updated after gtk
>>> moved to client-side-windows.
>>> With that gtk+ changes you can never be sure that a gdkwindow is bound
>>> to a X11 handle unless you call gdk_window_ensure_native().
>>> That's most probably the reason for the errors you are getting, it
>>> doesn't have anything to do with opengl.
>>
>> It seems like this is the reason to my problems. I would have saved a
>> few weeks if they had been updated... Anyways, thanks for telling us!
>
> I'm truly sorry if this caused you such problems. We, in gst-gl,
> discussed about it for a while, there is also an open bug in bugzilla
> with the reasons of the issues you were seeing and the proper way to
> solve it. Somehow this went out of my radar and no one else bothered
> to fix it.

Ok, no worries. :)

> Anyway it's not like gst-gl is actively maintained and constantly
> updated, it's a bit more than an experiment and you shouldn't really
> count on its code as the state of art way of implementing things.
> GstXOverlay docs is the correct source of information to look at, it's
> updated and contains detailed sample code to start from.
>

Is it safe to choose it for new software development?

>> Maybe someone should fix the GTK examples?
>
> It's on my TODO list now, but don't count on me doing it anytime soon.
> If you want to provide a patch I'll be glad to review it ;)
>

Ok, I'll put it on my TODO list too, and we'll see what happens.
Regards,

Alex

> Sorry again,
> Regards,
>
> Filippo
>
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