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		agwa on Feb 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: First fully sandboxed Linux desktop app > The main issue is that the video decoder MUST be in the same process than the video output, for performance reasons (buffer sharing: memcpy is murder) and for hardware decoders. I was afraid that this was the case. Might shared memory be a viable solution to buffer sharing? In any case, it makes me really happy to know that you've thought about this!

jbk on Feb 17, 2015 [–]

> I was afraid that this was the case. Might shared memory be a viable solution to buffer sharing?

It's GPU allocated memory, so not so sure.

> In any case, it makes me really happy to know that you've thought about this!

If you have ideas, we'd love to work on it, seriously.

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