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From: Marton Balint <cus@passwd.hu>
To: FFmpeg development discussions and patches <ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org>
Subject: Re: [FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH 2/3] libavcodec: add NETINT Quadra HW decoders & encoders
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2025 22:41:33 +0200 (CEST)
Message-ID: <a74cc092-7424-bb28-3e4e-f2ca929168de@passwd.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEEMt2kSnvvfFaK9X7Vd4oT-Hp9m9t0hYiuM-RYCpWMrJ5fkFA@mail.gmail.com>



On Tue, 8 Jul 2025, Ronald S. Bultje wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM Desmond Liu <desmond.liu@netint.ca> wrote:
>
>>   *   As far as I know, these cards/units are not available to the general
>> public at all.
>>
>> The cards are available to the general public. See
>> https://netint.com/contact-us and send a message to sales@netint.com
>> <mailto:sales@netint.com>. There is no minimum order nor any NDA that
>> needs to be signed.
>
>
> We previously had a similar debate regarding realmedia (search for "Codec
> wrapper for librv11 and RMHD muxer/demuxer").
>
> The debate comes down to this:
> - it's clear that for the company, there's a huge advantage in patches
> being upstream. For example, upstream does maintenance/upkeep for free.
> - it's not clear whether there is any benefit to the community / project in
> this patch being upstream. For example, how do we test this code in fate?

The same way you would test other hardware with fate, fate is really not 
the issue.

> The fact that something is for sale does not mean it's a general benefit to
> the FFmpeg developer or user community.

How is this different from merging hardware support to the upstream linux 
kernel? Do we really *not want* companies making money from ffmpeg forks 
to try to upstream their changes and have an interest in fixing issues or 
adding features to the vanilla version?

Regards,
Marton
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  reply	other threads:[~2025-07-08 20:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-07-08  0:59 Desmond Liu
2025-07-08 13:33 ` Ronald S. Bultje
2025-07-08 20:41   ` Marton Balint [this message]
2025-07-09  2:11   ` Desmond Liu
2025-07-08 19:37 ` Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2025-07-07 21:21 Desmond Liu
2025-07-02  8:11 Steven Zhou
2025-07-02 14:33 ` Derek Buitenhuis
2025-07-02 16:33   ` Steven Zhou

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