Gstreamer-VAAPI and Totem

[Bastien Nocera]

On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 19:52 +0200, Julien Moutte wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> autocluttersink's role is just to provide a way for different platform
> specific sink plugins to be automatically discovered and used to
> render video buffers into clutter.
> 
> 
> Now that being said, every clutter sink element just has to respect a
> common api to draw in the proper actor/texture. The way you handle
> this drawing and the fact that it's optimal or suboptimal is just a
> detail here.
> 
> 
> To reply to your question about Fluendo's design choice here, you have
> to take in account that we always try to support old versions of
> GStreamer because of our customers.
> 
> 
> We can't just make our products depend on a very recent API added for
> gst-vaapi and tell all our customers using old GStreamer versions to
> go to hell.

Given that you need a new version of clutter-gst for this to not
deadlock, this is a bit of a weird requirement.