[Libav-user] FFmpeg libraries and Nvidia NDEC licensing

[Corey Taylor]

On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 5:14 PM,  <kt.neale at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I write an application that performs hardware decoding of H264 using
> FFmpeg/FFmpeg libraries and the NVIDIA NDEC SDK, what license agreement
> applies?
>
> For example, (as advised by https://developer.nvidia.com/ffmpeg), I would
> have to configure a build of FFmpeg as follows:
>
> ./configure --enable-cuda --enable-cuvid --enable-nvenc --enable-nonfree
> --enable-libnpp
> --extra-cflags=-I/usr/local/cuda/include
> --extra-ldflags=-L/usr/local/cuda/lib64

The nvenc support is enabled by default and does not need nonfree.

corey