[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] News: Removal of libndi

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 13:56 Kieran Kunhya <kierank at obe.tv> wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Mar 2019 at 13:02 Yufei He <yhe at matrox.com> wrote:
>
>> Hardware codecs and software codecs are taking different responsibilities.
>>
>> Thanks a lot.
>>
>> Yufei.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> You should expose the APIs to the hardware, people will buy more of them
> if they can program the chip to do things as they want.
> I appreciate it's difficult for hardware companies to understand open
> source, since you all are very secretive and live in a world of IP.
> But what people actually want is low-level access to the hardware APIs.
>
> Kieran
>

I would add that most/all APIs to hardware are terrible, hardware engineers
can't design good APIs.
Just let us talk to the chip.

Kieran