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-rw-r--r--services/surfaceflinger/DisplayHardware/VirtualDisplaySurface.cpp14
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diff --git a/services/surfaceflinger/DisplayHardware/VirtualDisplaySurface.cpp b/services/surfaceflinger/DisplayHardware/VirtualDisplaySurface.cpp
index 29e9d40..0d6cbb4 100644
--- a/services/surfaceflinger/DisplayHardware/VirtualDisplaySurface.cpp
+++ b/services/surfaceflinger/DisplayHardware/VirtualDisplaySurface.cpp
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
namespace android {
// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+static bool sForceHwcCopy = FORCE_HWC_COPY_FOR_VIRTUAL_DISPLAYS;
+
#define VDS_LOGE(msg, ...) ALOGE("[%s] "msg, \
mDisplayName.string(), ##__VA_ARGS__)
#define VDS_LOGW_IF(cond, msg, ...) ALOGW_IF(cond, "[%s] "msg, \
@@ -96,6 +98,18 @@ status_t VirtualDisplaySurface::prepareFrame(CompositionType compositionType) {
mDbgState = DBG_STATE_PREPARED;
mCompositionType = compositionType;
+ if (sForceHwcCopy && mCompositionType == COMPOSITION_GLES) {
+ // Some hardware can do RGB->YUV conversion more efficiently in hardware
+ // controlled by HWC than in hardware controlled by the video encoder.
+ // Forcing GLES-composed frames to go through an extra copy by the HWC
+ // allows the format conversion to happen there, rather than passing RGB
+ // directly to the consumer.
+ //
+ // On the other hand, when the consumer prefers RGB or can consume RGB
+ // inexpensively, this forces an unnecessary copy.
+ mCompositionType = COMPOSITION_MIXED;
+ }
+
if (mCompositionType != mDbgLastCompositionType) {
VDS_LOGV("prepareFrame: composition type changed to %s",
dbgCompositionTypeStr(mCompositionType));