[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec/nvenc: Video Codec SDK 10 features support

[Soft Works]

> From: Roman Arzumanyan <rarzumanyan at nvidia.com> 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 30, 2020 10:23 PM
> To: Soft Works <softworkz at hotmail.com>; FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org>
> Cc: Yogender Gupta <ygupta at nvidia.com>
> Subject: RE: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] avcodec/nvenc: Video Codec SDK 10 features support
> 
> Hello, nice to meet you.
> 
> >Wouldn't it make sense to transition from compile time version checks to runtime checking?
> 
> Video Codec SDK headers are not included into ffmpeg 'as is' but using the nvcodec-headers project instead.

I know (https://github.com/FFmpeg/nv-codec-headers/commit/72f8b4bc6a2225c6fec6c046bb45c4a6be391f9f)

> This is community-driven project which aims to work around the licensing policies.

Talking about this rarely ends well, 

> So we can't influence ffmpeg development too much and only supports it's development with patches.

I'm sure, all contributions are welcome, small and big ones ;-)

> Changing compile-time checks with runtime checks is a big thing to do and in order to convince community to accept such changes we need to have very solid background.

I know that it's not a small thing and it will surely be better to discuss this first (not with me...).

Anyway, great to see Nvidia participating again!

softworkz