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

[Timo Rothenpieler]

On 01.07.2020 06:03, Soft Works wrote:
>> 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 have looked into full runtime loading before, but given that every 
single struct carries a version info, that will make older drivers 
refuse it, it's very much not straight forward to do, and would require 
major changes in both the nvEncodeApi.h header and ffmpeg nvenc 
implementation.