[vlc-devel] [PATCH 1/2] picture: always copy context when cloning

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le tiistaina 20. huhtikuuta 2021, 17.17.42 EEST Romain Vimont a écrit :
> From: Alexandre Janniaux <ajanni at videolabs.io>
> 
> picture_Clone was copying the original picture context into the new
> clone while picture_pool_Clone wasn't. As it is possible to create a
> pool from existing pictures, it's quite handy to be able to associate
> the graphical resources needed for each picture to their context so
> that it can be retrieved after a call to picture_pool_Wait/Get.
> 
> The rationale is that because resources like pixels are shared between
> the original picture and the clone, we should probably do the same with
> picture_context and have a unified way for picture producer to
> reference such resources.

I don't remember why it's the way it is.
Either it was simply that it was not needed. Or it was that it wouldn't work.

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