[FFmpeg-devel] FW: Requirements for compiling with CUDA_SDK option enabled

[Philip Langdale]

On 2019-02-18 20:08, Soft Works wrote:
> 
> Thanks again for your kind reply. Although I’m not a lawyer myself, I 
> know
> that if you’re the sole(!) author of the yadif_cuda kernel source, then 
> you
> would be  allowed to publish that code under any additional license you 
> want.
> 
> But that would be your very own decision, I wouldn’t dare to ask you 
> about
> doing so. ;-)
> 

It is true that I'm the only person who's written lines of code into 
that file,
and I did not read the original yadif code when implementing the 
algorithm (rather
I used a more comprehensible description from the doom9 forum), so yes, 
I guess
that's possible. I don't have any particular objection to doing so. I 
can suggest
a patch and see if other people agree it's possible.

> 
> Another way might be local compilation via NVRTC or NVCC, but this 
> would
> require the CUDA SDK to be installed. I guess you’ve already thought 
> about
> that..?

This is certainly possible, but requiring the end user to have the SDK 
installed
will be make effective usage difficult.

--phil