Overlay Video on Wayland

[Scott Talbert]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, Nicolas Dufresne wrote:

>> Is it possible to use video overlays (either with GstPlayer or playbin) on
>> Wayland surfaces?  And if so, what is the recommended approach?  I saw
>> there was 'waylandsink' but it doesn't seem to be public.
>
> waylansink is part of gst-plugins-bad (unstable), and can be used with
> GstVideoOverlay interface on wayland. Run "gst-inspect-1.0 waylandsink"
> for details. An example application can be found here:
>
> https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/tree/tests/examples/waylandsink

The problem, though, is that gst/wayland/wayland.h header is not public.

See 
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gst-plugins-bad/tree/gst-libs/gst/wayland/Makefile.am#n26

Scott