On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:58:29 +0100, wm4 <nfx...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:09:57 +0000 > "Mironov, Mikhail" <mikhail.miro...@amd.com> wrote: > > > > I wanted to stay out of license issues and this forum is oriented more > > towards > > technical discussion but I can't resist putting my two cents: Yes, HW > > manufactures > > live out of HW sell. And yes, integration with products like ffmpeg should > > benefit them (us). > > But they(us) do not sell software. The enablement of HW acceleration adds > > features to ffmpeg project. > > And we do it ourselves. We also intend to contribute more. So it is > > mutually beneficial. Isn't it? > > Well, don't worry too much. as an mplayer user who had to go looking to find a bunch of sdk headers and hope that the instructions written 2 years ago still point to a working URL, i feel a lot of pain in this thread. svn has svn externals, where a svn checkout would pull from other svn repositories. i am assuming git has the same thing? if so these headers could go in an external repo, but a ffmpeg git pull would pull them down? are there any objections to that ? that would cut down on our objections and maintainership and git history concerns... i think? so long as its easy for non amd users to flip a config switch to disable pulling those amd headers down. -compn _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
