Bug#511544: VDPAU Headers

Andres Mejia mcitadel at gmail.com
Mon Jun 1 02:15:10 UTC 2009


As someone mentioned earlier, the copyright statement of the two vdpau headers 
says this.

/*
 * This copyright notice applies to this header file:
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2008 NVIDIA Corporation
 * 
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
 * obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
 * files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
 * restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
 * copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
 * copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
 * Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
 * conditions:
 *
 * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
 * included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
 *
 * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
 * EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
 * OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
 * NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
 * HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
 * WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
 * FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
 * OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
 */

So the headers can be packaged up and distributed via main until NVIDIA creates 
a proper package for libvdpau (won't hold my breath).

Also, it seems libvdpau.so is loaded by dlopen by mplayer/ffmpeg. Has anyone 
confirmed this? If so, The Debian multimedia team should look into creating a 
package just for the headers.

The headers can be fount at 
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/vdpau/include/vdpau/

-- 
Regards,
Andres





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