[cairo] Fwd: cairo_paint() with GPU Buffer

[Uli Schlachter]

Hi,

On 11.02.19 08:11, Abimathi Natarajan wrote:
[...]
>          The above command will decode the input file (input.mp4) with
> hardware accelerations(vaapi) and hwmap will directly map the hardware
>          frames to system memory.
[...]
>    - I will directly feed this memory to
> 
>                 cairo_image_surface_create_for_data ((unsigned char
> *)buffer, CAIRO_FORMAT_ARGB32,width, height, stride) to create a
> cairo_surface for the given frame.

>From the information you provided, I can only make a guess. My guess is
that CPU access to the buffer in GPU memory is uncached and thus slow.

You could try copying the image to a buffer in main memory and using
that copy for cairo_image_surface_create_for_data(). That way
cairo/pixman get to operate on cached memory.

Cheers,
Uli
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