You can do the same on Android: the stagefright client libraries are terribly buggy, and sometimes crash if you get the timing wrong or tickle the demuxers the

You can do the same on Android: the stagefright client libraries are terribly buggy, and sometimes crash if you get the timing wrong or tickle the demuxers the wrong way. It's possible (but undocumented) to send Surface instances across Binder to a separate service process and render there. There are no obsolete ideas.