[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] lavc/cuvid: fail early if GPU can't handle video parameters

Pavel Koshevoy pkoshevoy at gmail.com
Sat Jan 21 19:48:01 EET 2017


On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 10:35 AM, Pavel Koshevoy <pkoshevoy at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Despite wm4 objections I am resubmitting this patch, because I can
> find no other reasonable method for rejecting ffmpeg cuvid decoder
> when it can't handle a given video stream.  An unreasonable
> alternative would be to duplicate the work that cuvid.c does
> internally on my application side, and that would be of little benefit
> to me and to ffmpeg -- I might as well use the nvenc APIs directly

I meant cuvid, not nvenc of course ... I get those mixed up sometimes,
sorry about that

> then.  I still see this patch as an improvement.
>
> Pavel.


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