Best path from AVPlayerItemVideoOutput to openGL Texture

Question

Been pulling my hair out trying to figure out the current best path from AVFoundation videos to an openGLTexture, most of what I find is related to iOS, and I can\'t seem to mak

Answer 1

I'm starting on the same journey and know as much about OpenGL as I do about sheep farming, but did notice that your pbOptions doesn't contain kCVPixelBufferOpenGLCompatibilityKey

NSDictionary *pbOptions = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjectsAndKeys:
    [NSNumber numberWithInt:kCVPixelFormatType_422YpCbCr8], kCVPixelBufferPixelFormatTypeKey,
    [NSDictionary dictionary], kCVPixelBufferIOSurfacePropertiesKey,
    [NSNumber numberWithBool:YES], kCVPixelBufferOpenGLCompatibilityKey, nil];

I'm requesting the pixel buffer as kCVPixelFormatType_32BGRA rather than component and this works for me with local variables for _currentSurface (IOSurfaceRef), textureName (GLuint), _sourceWidth (int) and _sourceHeight (int)

IOSurfaceRef newSurface = CVPixelBufferGetIOSurface(pixelBuffer);
if (_currentSurface != newSurface) {
    CGLContextObj  cgl_ctx = (CGLContextObj)[[self openGLContext] CGLContextObj];
    [[self openGLContext] makeCurrentContext];

    IOSurfaceDecrementUseCount(_currentSurface);
    _currentSurface = newSurface;
    IOSurfaceIncrementUseCount(_currentSurface);
    GLsizei texWidth = (int) IOSurfaceGetWidth(_currentSurface);
    GLsizei texHeight = (int) IOSurfaceGetHeight(_currentSurface);

    if (_sourceWidth == 0 && _sourceHeight == 0) {
        // used during drawing of texture
        _sourceWidth = texWidth;
        _sourceHeight = texHeight;
    }

    if (!_textureName) {
        GLuint name;
        glGenTextures(1, &name);
        _textureName = name;
    }

    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_ARB, _textureName);
    CGLTexImageIOSurface2D(cgl_ctx, GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_ARB, GL_RGBA, texWidth, texHeight, GL_BGRA, GL_UNSIGNED_INT_8_8_8_8_REV, self.currentSurface, 0);        
    glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_RECTANGLE_ARB, 0);
}