Depending on device feature level, d3d11 runtime can support
ID3D11Fence which is equivalent to ID3D12Fence.
Waiting using fence has performance-wise benefit over pulling
ID3D11Query status. If ID3D11Fence is not supported by device,
then ID3D11Query will be used instead.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/2790>
Our Direct3D11 abstraction layer has been improved and
it gained good shape from API point of view.
Also, On Windows, GstD3D11 has various advantages over GstGL
in terms of compatibility/stability/feature/performance.
Note that WGL implementation is known to be buggy for some
drivers/vendors/scenario (that's a reason why Google implemented ANGLE).
Moreover, GstGL is not fully optimized for Windows unfortunately.
It's the time to open this interface to application developers
for various optimized processing using our Direct3D11
infrastructure.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/2646>
Remove all the d3d11 and dxgi header version dependent ifdef
and bump the minimum requirement to d3d11_4.h and dxgi1_6.h.
We are already failing support old Visual Studio (Windows SDK actually)
such as Visual Studio 2015. Note that our MinGW toolchain satisfies
the requirement.
From runtime point of view, this change should be fine since
we are checking OS version with IUnknown::QueryInterface()
everywhere in order to check API availability
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/1684>