[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Allow using primary CUDA device context

[Oleg Dobkin]

Updated

On Mon, 2019-11-18 at 13:51 +0100, Timo Rothenpieler wrote:
> On 18/11/2019 12:25, Oleg Dobkin wrote:
> 
> FFmpeg supports multiple tracks of the Video Codec SDK, to support
> older
> drivers and legacy GPUs that way.
> Since the version number only tracks the Video SDK Version, and not
> the
> CUDA loader version, what needs to be done is to set the new minimum
> version for each supported track.
> So far, there was no need to add explicit checks for SDK 9.1, but
> that
> will be required for this.
> Also, since SDK 8.0 is effectively dead, it can be dropped.
> 
> I immediately bump the version on ffnvcodec git after every release,
> so
> the correct versions to check for in configure right now are:
> 9.1.23.1, 9.0.18.3, 8.2.15.10 and 8.1.24.11
> 
> I'm not sure I understand this. As I see - ffmpeg wouldn't compile
> without the latest version of ffnvcodec, which would be 9.1.23.2
> after
> the change is merged, so this is the only check that needs to be
> performed, regardless of the supported Video SDK versions, isn't it?
> 
> ffmpeg will compile with the latest version of each Video SDK Version
> track.
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