retro-gtk: Support Hardware Rendering
a project by aplazas
Updated over 2 years ago. 6 hacker ♥️.

retro-gtk is a toolkit for GTK+-based Libretro frontends. It is mainly used by GNOME Games to play retro games via Libretro gaming console emulators.

Currenly retro-gtk supports only software rendering. There are two ways hardware rendering can be used in retro-gtk:

  • to draw the framebuffer outputted by the Libretro core faster (using OpenGL instead of Cairo) and to apply shaders to it, like CRT shaders,
  • to allow the Libretro core to render its video output with hardware acceleration, some cores require it making retro-gtk unable to run them.

The goal of this Hack Week project is to make retro-gtk use hardware rendering as much as possible.

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Looking for hackers with the skills:

opengl shaders gtk3 gtkglarea

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Hack Week 16

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  • about 7 years ago: aplazas added keyword "opengl" to this project.
  • about 7 years ago: aplazas added keyword "shaders" to this project.
  • about 7 years ago: aplazas added keyword "gtk3" to this project.
  • about 7 years ago: aplazas added keyword "gtkglarea" to this project.
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  • about 7 years ago: aplazas started this project.
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