[webkit-dev] Rendering Video using video overlay rather than on a Cairo surface (Graphics overlay)

[Sriram Neelakandan]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Simon Fraser <simon.fraser at apple.com> wrote:

>
> Something else you should consider here is ways that the video can be clipped
> and transformed.

Thanks Simon, I forgot that

>
> Any solution which naively puts a hardware surface over some rect where the
> video is  supposed to be will be broken in many cases.


Thinking aloud; the only option seems to be is to convert the YUV
output of the decoder to a RGB surface, which is mapped in to Cairo
surface;
this way Webkit is free to do those crazy CSS Transforms;
YUV to RGB will kill the processor (unless done in HW)
But for any embedded core running around 300~400MHz this will never
work for even D1 at 25 fps  (forget HD)

Now. how can we accelerate this ?

I assume clip will always translate to a paint / setSize function. So
that can be handled in HW. Is that right ?
Is there a way to decently accelerate all the video layer CSS transforms ?
Is it possible to send the Transform down to RenderVideo and then to
the MediaPlayer ?
Some chips do provide HW transform functions;

>
> This is exactly what the ACCELERATED_COMPOSITING code path does. There is
> currently a Core Animation backend for Mac (GraphicsLayerCA.mm); you'd have
> to
> write a backend for your compositing system if you wish to use this code
> path.

Does this handle the CSS transforms as well ?

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