Vaapi. The ability to add input types to the decoders

[Víctor Jáquez]

On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 at 16:16, Odoacre wrote:
> 
> > Sorry, atm it requires the caps feature and we have issues there since the
> > dmabuf are tiled, event though the modifiers aren't set by mesa. The mesa
> > dmabuf exporter is massively broken, so we'll have to disable this really
> > soon in libgstgl. It work till around Mesa 1.17, when the tiling and
> > compression got activated by default for all internal texture backend.
> 
> Does it mean that the only reliable way of passing a GPU memory object
> between the vaapi and GL plugins is GstVideoGLTextureUploadMeta? Does it
> imply a copyless GPU memory object passing? If so, we could implement it
> for the vaapi encoder plugins, since it's already implemented in vaapi
> decoders anyway. AFAIU vaapi people (as well as gstreamer community in
> general) are leaning towards the DMABuf-based solutions, but since it
> does not work maybe we should implement GstVideoGLTextureUploadMeta
> approach? It's really a shame that we have to do so much unneccessary
> copying between GL and vaapi elements.

Nope. GstVideoGLTextureUploadMeta is considered deprecated.

vmjl

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