Package org.lwjgl.egl

Class EXTSurfaceCompression

java.lang.Object
org.lwjgl.egl.EXTSurfaceCompression

public class EXTSurfaceCompression extends Object
Native bindings to the EXT_surface_compression extension.

Applications may wish to take advantage of framebuffer compression. Some platforms may support framebuffer compression at fixed bitrates. Such compression algorithms generally produce results that are visually lossless, but the results are typically not bit exact when compared to a non-compressed result.

This extension enables applications to opt-in to fixed-rate compression for EGL window surfaces.

Compression may not be supported for all framebuffer formats. It can still be requested for all formats and applications can query what level of compression was actually enabled.