[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH]lavd: Remove libndi newtek

[Marton Balint]

On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Dec 2018, at 19:48, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>> > On the general idea of this - agreed.
>> >
>> > Separately I think we should at least bring up a possible rethink of
>> > our policy about non-open source nonfree components.
>> >
>> > If it's:
>> > - Not part of the OS
>> > or
>> > - Not open source
>> >
>> > ...maybe we should not include such a component upstream?
>> 
>> Yes, remove all hardware stuff +1.
>
> Libraries to access hardware, notably those that are talking directly with something that was shipped with the drivers, are usually considered part of the OS. This is a bit weird, but this extend the Linux way to other (broken) OSes.
>
> That would make nvenc and such acceptable.
>
> NDI is not hardware. (Nor is faac)

I really don't want to troll here, but there is an NDI PTZ camera:

https://www.newtek.com/camera/ndihx-ptz1/

So is it really that different to a USB camera just because the 
singalling is going through ethernet and not USB?

Regards,
Marton