[FFmpeg-devel] patch for a new H.264 codec

[Soft Works]

> From: Jean-Baptiste Kempf
>
> On Mon, 11 Mar 2019, at 17:21, Soft Works wrote:
> > While I don’t care much about Matrox, I’m a bit surprised about the
> > recent sounds here. Should  we expect ffmpeg to drop most hw
> > accelerations, then?
>
> Absolutely not.

I very glad to hear that :-)

> > IANAL, but aren’t drivers clearly considered to be system components?
>
> Sure, but here, it does not seem to call a driver, but a specific library called libmvM264Ffmpeg that is being called.
>
> Maybe this is just a mis-communication, though.

Well, it probably was then, thanks for the clarification.

I came to think that it's hardware related because:

> Nicolas wrote:
>> If you make the driver GPL-compatible, there will be no problem at all.


I still wonder why recent discussions are often referring to GPL even though ffmpeg is released under LGPL.


Best regards,
softworkz