Comment 122 for bug 1424201

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In , Robert Mader (robert.posteo) wrote :

Although this bug is only about decoding support, I'd like to leave a note about the rendering: AFAIK rendering without any slow copies requires DMABUF support, so processes can share resources on the GPU.
For the Wayland backend this about to land, see bug 1552590, quote:

> Wayland dmabuf surface are located in GPU and can be attached as EGLImage or wl_buffer. It allows direct rendering to GPU and share the HW buffer across processes.

Also see bug 1010527