For improved performance, the native buffers from gstreamer can directly uploaded into a Processing texture. We had this functionality in the 1.x version of the library, but due to the API changes in gstreamer, it needs to be re-implemented in version 2.0. How it is done in PraxisLIVE could serve as a guide:

https://github.com/praxis-live/praxis/blob/master/praxis.video.gstreamer/src/org/praxislive/video/gstreamer/components/PImageSink.java#L141
https://github.com/praxis-live/praxis/blob/master/praxis.video.gstreamer/src/org/praxislive/video/gstreamer/components/PImageSink.java#L117