X11 vs Cocoa on OS X for GstGL context sharing

[Matthew Waters]

Hi,

Cocoa is known to work and is tested on OS X.  glimagesink on OS X uses
shared contexts with a CAOpenGLLayer.

X11 on OS X is not tested regularly and I have heard reports of it not
working.  Your mileage may vary ;)

With Cocoa, the connection to the window system is through NSApplication
which should automatically just work for sharing the display connection
between GStreamer and your application and the default
gst_gl_display_new() will work for Cocoa applications.

Cheers
-Matt

On 14/06/16 19:46, Gottfried Haider wrote:
> I've come across many references to
> gst_gl_display_x11_new_with_display and friends in code that is
> presumably also meant to run on OS X. However, I've found that the
> gst/gl/x11/* headers aren't part of recent Framework releases for Mac,
> and neither come when installing with homebrew.
>
> Is Cocoa the only supported way on OS X, or should I try to compile
> gst-plugins-bad myself to include X11 support? (I am hoping to make
> use of GL context sharing on this platform.)
>
> Thanks in advance
> Gottfried

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