clone 511544 -1 reassign -1 wnpp retitle -1 RFP: please package the VDPAU adaptation library block 511544 by -1 severity -1 normal stop
Tony Houghton <h...@realh.co.uk> writes: > NVidia drivers with VDPAU support are just about to become available in > experimental (see #501668 and #511524). Would it be possible to release > ffmpeg packages with VDPAU asap because I keep running into difficulties > going up the chain from drivers through libraries to applications, > trying to compile my own to be able to use VDPAU. > > I realise this could be tricky because I don't suppose you really want > ffmpeg in general to depend on nvidia-glx. this is not possible to do at this point, because in order to enable VDPAU support, the headers need the be available. since the headers are currently in non-free, there is no way for ffmpeg to build depend on that. the next problem is the license of the VDPAU libraries, I imagine. nvidia has already been approached by mandriva and ubuntu, and they are considering releasing the adaptation library seperatly under a free license. The adaptation library is a very small library that is supposed to dispatch request to different VDPAU implementation. Nvidia wants to invite other driver developers to develop other implementation for other hardware, but AFAIUI, there is only the (non-free) nvidia one. Currently this adaptation library is included into nvidia-glx. Factoring it out to a package in main would be a prequesite for enabling VDPAU support in ubuntu. Until this happens, I'd suggest compiling ffmpeg from svn. -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
