> -----Original Message----- > From: ffmpeg-devel [mailto:ffmpeg-devel-boun...@ffmpeg.org] On Behalf > Of wm4 > Sent: November 29, 2017 11:06 AM > To: ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org > Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] AMD external header > > On Wed, 29 Nov 2017 15:45:28 +0000 > "Mironov, Mikhail" <mikhail.miro...@amd.com> wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: ffmpeg-devel [mailto:ffmpeg-devel-boun...@ffmpeg.org] On > > > Behalf Of Paul B Mahol > > > Sent: November 29, 2017 10:16 AM > > > To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg- > > > de...@ffmpeg.org> > > > Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] AMD external header > > > > > > On 11/29/17, Carl Eugen Hoyos <ceffm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 2017-11-29 15:58 GMT+01:00 wm4 <nfx...@googlemail.com>: > > > > > > > >> Well, don't worry too much. People like him are, as some would > > > >> say, toxic members of the community. Frequent drama and flame > > > >> wars > > > happen. > > > >> (And here's where I wished ffmpeg were a properly managed > > > >> project.) > > > > > > > > Look who's talking! > > > > > > > > Given that you started a fork of FFmpeg repeating ancient lies and > > > > stating you don't support FFmpeg anymore: > > > > Why do you post here? > > > > > > Because he like to argue with toxic people like you. > > > _______________________________________________ > > > ffmpeg-devel mailing list > > > ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org > > > http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel > > > > Hi, > > This conversation is very entertaining but leads us nowhere. > > May I suggest to go down to business of enabling HW encoders by default? > > Yesterday Mark submitted the initial implementation and I really want > > to thank him for his mentoring and participation - it was very useful. > > The submission doesn't have AMD header so AMD encoder is off in any > default build. > > I counted responses to my posts and found six people are for the > > default enabling of HW blocks one way or another: by including headers > > or pulling them out automatically using git (I guess via submodules?). > > Two people want to remove external headers and disable default HW > acceleration. > > Question is: how to move forward on practical terms? I really don’t know > how this team makes such decisions. > > Or maybe it is impasse case and all want to keep things the way they are > today? > > We don't automatically check out git repos as part of the build process. That > means the user will have to get those headers to build AMD support. AMD > support could still be autodetected, and enabled if the headers are available.
This was a suggestion in one of the posts, not my idea. I personally would prefer to include headers. > > This is not different from how it works with Intel and vaapi/qsv, so I'd say > that's fair. > > Do you agree with this? If NVidia headers moved to a separate repo - yes. Thanks, Mikhail _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
