[vlc-devel] [PATCH v2 4/5] contrib: dav1d: add DXVA support

[Steve Lhomme]

On 2020-09-11 17:19, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le perjantaina 11. syyskuuta 2020, 12.46.08 EEST Steve Lhomme a écrit :
>> Based on (unmerged) code from Matthew Wozniak
>> https://code.videolan.org/mwozniak/dav1d/-/tree/dxva
> 
> I don't think we should be applying large non-upstream patches in contribs,
> unless there is pretty damn strong reason to do so, like upstream is hostile
> or unresponsive. Otherwise nobody can ever update the package if they have any
> reason to do so.
> 
> And considering that this requires Windows and a device that's not even
> publicly available yet, I don't see that convincing reason.

For now I'm just making the usable code public, in case anyone want to 
try/check/fix it.

I contacted the original author but didn't get a reply so far. He has 
not submitted a Merge Request yet. After a while I will just create one 
myself.