> > Nobody is against adding AMD specific encoders and hwaccels. The issue for > some seems to be the inclusion of external headers. > > Currently, nothing in our policy is against it, and as I and Philip already > stated, your additions shouldn't be gated on a potential future policy change > about bundled headers, so your patch can initially go in with the header.
I sent this email in response to Mark's who stated that he will not include the header. I understand the delayed decision about external headers and will be OK with any outcome as long as it is universal. > > > I also noticed that recently there is a lot of activity to add full Nvidia > decoders to FFmpeg (VC1, MPEG4, VP8, VP9 etc.). > > I am guessing this is to overcome DXVA or VAAPI shortcoming. What about > AMD? We also have them. > > Simply put, those developers wanted to write those features. > > dxva2 and d3d11va work just fine with AMD hardware, for that matter. And > nobody stops you or anyone to write similar hwaccels for AMD specific APIs. If it makes sense I would like to add decoders as well as accelerated converter as soon as encoder is in. Thanks, Mikhail _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
