All code interacting with Objective-C objects should now use Automated
Reference Counting rather than manual memory management or Garbage
Collection. Because ARC prohibits C-structs from containing
references to Objective-C objects, all such fields are now typed
'gpointer'. Setting and gettings Objective-C fields on such a
struct now uses explicit __bridge_* calls to tell ARC about
object lifetimes.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=777847
Execute GL calls without marshalling them to the context thread. In the cocoa
and eagl backends calling gst_gl_context_activate is cheap and therefore calling
it on the current thread and serializing GL calls with a per-context lock is
more efficient (faster and has less overhead) than marshalling everything to the
context thread.
This optimization cuts a large overhead in g_poll (continuously waking up the
context thread) and in g_mutex_*/g_cond_* (waiting for results from the context
thread).
This reverts commit 96b9666d59.
This reverts commit d11385d167.
This breaks the texture sharing with the applemedia elements as
CVOpenGLESTextureCache seems to have an arbitrary restriction on GLES2 only.
This will deadlock if the main thread is the one who creates the GstGLContext.
All things we call from the main thread should be possible from any thread.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=751101
