Elvis,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. It makes sense.

I need to dive into the toImage function, try to read directly the bytes from 
the FBO and see if that has any performance impact.

Best regards,

Nuno

> On 13 Jul 2021, at 14:10, Elvis Stansvik <elvst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Nuno,
> 
> I'm really out of my waters here, but, provided you don't need to hold
> on to each AVFrame after you are "done with it", you could perhaps
> avoid having to allocate a QImage for each frame (which toImage forces
> you to do) by just allocating a a single AVFrame and a single memory
> buffer for it, and then do what toImage does, which is make sure the
> FBO is bound and read the pixels off of it with glReadPixels. Then you
> could read the pixels straight into the memory buffer used by your
> AVFrame.
> 
> That way you would save the overhead of a new QImage being allocated
> each time, which might speed things up..?
> 
> Just ideas here. Have not worked with GL or ffmpeg before.
> 
> Elvis
> 
> Den tis 13 juli 2021 kl 11:22 skrev Nuno Santos <nuno.san...@imaginando.pt>:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I’m trying to capture the content of an FBO to a video file. This video file 
>> should contain the animations generated by a qml scene.
>> 
>> To do this, I’m recurring to QOpenGLFramebufferObject class toImage() method.
>> 
>> My scene is being drawn at 1920x1080. Each call to toImage takes 30 ms! :(
>> 
>> If I want to render to file at 60 fps, ideally, this call would need to take 
>> less than 16 ms to give me room to do other operations, such as video 
>> encoding and the actual render.
>> 
>> As anyone been here before? What other strategies are available to copy the 
>> FBO data to an image?
>> 
>> I’m using libav to encode the video file, therefor I need to fill an 
>> AVFrame. Right now I’m filling the AVFrame from the QImage generated by the 
>> FBO toImage method.
>> 
>> Does any one knows a method of filling an AVFrame directly from texture data?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Nuno
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