[vlc-devel] [PATCH 1/4] [RFC] direct3d11: add a way to (re)store the device in the global context

[Steve Lhomme]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 2:36 PM, Steve Lhomme <robux4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 2:20 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net> wrote:
>> Le 20 novembre 2017 14:26:49 GMT+02:00, Steve Lhomme <robux4 at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 1:20 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi at remlab.net>
>>>wrote:
>>>> This is actually pretty bad, and I don't see why you can't do
>>>something like VDPAU support. It also has a global context to work
>>>around the lack of filter pool and pool-level private data.
>>>
>>>Because for Direct3D support in QSV I will also need this information.
>>>I cannot put everything in a single module.
>>>
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>> So what? VDPAU has more than one module too.
>
> From what I see, it's using a shared (non-static) library between the
> modules. And there's a lock in that library.
>
> I have to check if that can work for Windows library and how they're
> initialized. In that case I'll probably have to move all the
> D3D11/D3D9 libraries output to make sure they all end up in the same
> place so the dynamic loading can happen.

Given our DLL security model it's not possible to have the device
handled by a separate DLL. Modules can only load DLLs from System32 on
Windows.

So another way to use a DLL could be to load it as a separate module
with specific callbacks.

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