External headers are no longer welcome in the ffmpeg codebase because they
increase the maintenance burden. However, in the NVidia case the vanilla
headers need some modifications to be usable in ffmpeg therefore we still
provide them, but in a separate repository.
The external headers can be found at
https://git.videolan.org/?p=ffmpeg/nv-codec-headers.git
Fate-source is updated because of the deleted files, and dynlink_loader.h
license headers were updated with the standard FFmpeg headers.
Signed-off-by: Marton Balint <cus@passwd.hu>
Signed-off-by: Timo Rothenpieler <timo@rothenpieler.org>
As Nvidia has put the most recent Video Codec SDK behind a double
registration wall, of which one needs manual approval of a lenghty
application, bundling this header saves everyone trying to use NVENC
from that headache.
The header is still MIT licensed and thus fine to bundle with ffmpeg.
Not bundling this header would get ffmpeg stuck at SDK v6, which is
still freely available, holding back future development of the NVENC
encoder.