[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] vdpau

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 08:45:12AM -0800, Stephen Warren wrote:
> 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.

Ok, that seems good enough, I'm all for removing the dlopen dependency
ASAP in that case.