XOverlay lost after setting playbin state to Null

[Ralph]

David Hoyt-2 wrote
> 
>> Interesting, I had no idea such a sink existed.  Where can I find more
>> information about it, examples, etc.?
> 
> Our discussion thread about it is here:
> http://code.google.com/p/ossbuild/issues/detail?id=57
> 
> The source is available here:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/tree/sys/d3dvideosink/
> d3dvideosink.c 
> 
> Just replace dshowvideosink with d3dvideosink. If you're using OSSBuild,
> autovideosink should select d3dvideosink by default.
> 
> d3dvideosink was created because the direct show one locked up and crashed
> all the time for me and seemed generally unusable for any serious use.
> Direct show has a media graph/pipeline similar to gstreamer (the 2 are
> somewhat analogous) and it also seemed redundant to create a 2nd media
> pipeline and push buffers through it simply for display. Direct show, I'd
> guess (but I don't *know*), uses direct 3d under the covers. So it made
> sense to skip the middle man. dshowvideosink, I believe, does bypass most
> of
> the direct show graph, so that certainly helps.
> 
> Another plus is that there's direct 3d headers now for gcc through
> mingw.org
> or mingw-w64. As far as I know, you still need to have visual c++ to
> compile
> the direct show elements because they need to use the direct show base
> classes. So you can compile d3dvideosink using gcc (and others have), but
> not dshowvideosink.
> 
> But I've been running d3dvideosink continuously now for months and months
> without a problem. Seems to be pretty stable. But then again, I wrote most
> of it. So I'm biased. :D
> 


Cheers, Dave, I will give it a try as soon as I solve my problem with
signals.  My software is going to display 1-4 videos simultaneously and will
be run on netbooks and tablets which are pretty slow and even tiniest
performance gains are very important to me.

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