[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]avfilter: add Intel IPP library based x86 optimized video scaling filter

[Gyan Doshi]

On 2021-05-25 18:40, Nicolas George wrote:
> Zhislina, Victoria (12021-05-25):
>> While you are right that IPP is not GPL based and is closed source
>> currently (but free for any commercial usage) and therefore does
>> require --enable-nonfree,
>> I'm sorry to mention that you are not right about "doing the same but
>> faster". If you read my commit message you could see that it:
>> Introduces superscaling interpolation method for video downscale.
>> Adds antialiasing option to linear, cubic and lanczos interpolation.
>>
>> Moreover, IPP has 100-s of functions that could be added to ffmeg processing in the future.
>> One more thing to mention - when you say "one single platform" it is
>> x86 that undoubtedly covers top part of video processing market. Such
>> filter creation request comes from one of the top ISVs in this market.
> So, are you working on getting this library GPL-compatible? Notify us
> once it's done.
>
> But there is no way we will accept code for a non-libre library coming
> from the company that made the library in the first place. That would be
> allowing freeloaders.

Put it to a vote instead of one or a few developers declaring it NAK.

Regards,
Gyan