[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] News: Removal of libndi

Ali KIZIL alikizil at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 17:14:15 EET 2019


On Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 5:54 PM Maksym Veremeyenko <verem at m1stereo.tv> wrote:

> On 20.03.2019 22:13, Dennis Mungai wrote:
> [...]
> > The primary agitator here seems to be kierank:
> > https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/7589?cversion=0&cnum_hist=10#comment:5
> >
> > What undisclosed history do you have with Newtek (see the reference to
> > "Andrew") above that isn't disclosed above?
> > Secondly, you're quite influential in the broadcast industry:
> > https://www.obe.tv/author/obe/
> >
> > There's an aura of hostility around this commit, and whatever that is
> seems
> > to have spilled over into this.
>
> dropping NDI from ffmpeg can make more efforts to
> https://www.obe.tv/portfolio/interface-conversion/# ?
>
> --
> Maksym Veremeyenko
>
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Unfortunately, I had the same feeling.

I use NDI for SDI to/from IP conversation at contribution encoding against
J2K at zero cost, which is also compatible with NDI equipments.

I wasn't brave enough like Maksyn to spread the word.

I think the source code itself doesn't violate GPL. It use an external lib,
just like drivers.

Newtek stopped distributing the binary. I don't understand how removing
source code from FFmpeg repo punishes Newtek. It just discourage developers
and took users out of notice for some days.

Anyone can make an external repo with a patch to apply to use it back at a
point where this removal is still under questioning.


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