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@sherington: Understood and thanks - I know that's often a good solution but in my case, there are many layers of code between where the video is decoded and the buffer used as a texture and a lot of assumptions about how it works. I could always decode video into a fixed buffer size and then scale ...

@dm-helper Understood - I was a bit surprised this scenario isn't more common given the obvious use cases in video games, virtual 'theaters' etc. My work was for my company and our product team has deprioritized making it work as I'd like so I can't spend any more work time on it. For my own edifica...

That's helpful to know I need to change direction - thank you.

The [Win64/C++/libVLC 3.0.8] app I am working on streams video URLs into a memory buffer that is subsequently used as an OpenGL texture. It works well but I would like to add support for resizing the memory buffer as the video is playing back and everything I have tried so far fails - the only solut...