[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Include headers for cuvid

[Matt Oliver]

On 21 September 2016 at 14:38, Philip Langdale <philipl at overt.org> wrote:

> The cuvid header situation is a mess - the only feature-complete headers
> are
> in the Video SDK and not in the cuda header collection. The headers in the
> Video SDK are MIT licenced, and so we can bundle them like we do the nvenc
> header.
>
> Once bundled, we do need to tweak them to remove the use of a dynlink
> system that's specific to the Video SDK samples, which we don't need and
> don't really want.
>

Does using the MIT headers instead effect the current licensing constraints
on cuvid (as its nonfree at present). I was just wondering if keeping in
the dynlink_cuda stuff could be used to remove the cuda compile dependency
and actually allow cuvid compiles to be distributed.