[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] vdpau

[Stephen Warren]

Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:49:00PM +0100, Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
> > On Mon, 16 Feb 2009, Reimar Doeffinger wrote:
> > >> Ah, didn't notice it was the new way to operate. Why is it so?
> > >
> > > Because vdpau is a proprietary library, thus most distributions will
> > > have to (and should!) compile MPlayer without vdpau-support unless it
> > > is dlopened, or in short: see the libdvdcss case (though we do not
> > > have the dlopen in MPlayer itself, it is in the external libdvdread).
> >
> > Yes, that makes sense but I think I read somewhere nvidia would try to
> > change at least the license for the wrapper library for this very reason.
> 
> It would make sense, and as soon as there is a GPL-compatibly licenses
> libvdpau I am all for removing the dlopen.

The source for libvdpau.so and libvdpau_trace.so (note: not libvdpau_nvidia.so)
has the license below.

We are in the process of getting libvdpau.so and libvdpau_trace.so into upstream
x.org repositories.

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