[vlc-devel] [RFC 1/6] libvlc: add rendering callbacks for D3D11 and D3D9

[Steve Lhomme]

On 5/2/2019 10:04 AM, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> On 4/30/2019 6:41 PM, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: What's the point of 
> this static assertion? Structures of different types cannot
>> alias even if they have the same layout and representation, AFAIK.
>
> Because the libvlc API mimicks the vlc_vout_display API I did for 
> rendering:
> https://code.videolan.org/robUx4/vlc/blob/libvlc/callbacks/59/include/vlc_vout_display.h#L458 
>

It's also a safety in case something is added on the display module side 
and not handled in the libvlc side (either ignoring on purpose or update 
the API).