Re:A macOS-like operating system based on FreeBSD
by Teknoman117 on Friday August 06, 2021 @01:48PM
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Nice to see someone is working on it.
Over Christmas 2017 I threw together a simple demo of a "system compositor" (a compositor that runs another wayland compositor) that sent all of the video frames rendered into a hardware video encoder (libva on an Intel GPU) as well as the screen. I was able to record playing games without much CPU overhead at all. I never really got beyond nesting the weston reference compositor because both gnome's wayland compositor and kde's kwin compositor don't support running nested (or at least didn't at the time). Was quite proud of myself for being able to record steam games playing at full screen framerate (Crypt of the Necrodancer and other simple things, I had a i7-5600u in my laptop).
I'd have probably turned it into a project like this, but I work for a streaming service professionally and they didn't approve of me working on open source work in that realm :(
Over Christmas 2017 I threw together a simple demo of a "system compositor" (a compositor that runs another wayland compositor) that sent all of the video frames rendered into a hardware video encoder (libva on an Intel GPU) as well as the screen. I was able to record playing games without much CPU overhead at all. I never really got beyond nesting the weston reference compositor because both gnome's wayland compositor and kde's kwin compositor don't support running nested (or at least didn't at the time). Was quite proud of myself for being able to record steam games playing at full screen framerate (Crypt of the Necrodancer and other simple things, I had a i7-5600u in my laptop).
I'd have probably turned it into a project like this, but I work for a streaming service professionally and they didn't approve of me working on open source work in that realm :(