nvenc SDK v8

[Antoine Martin]

Version 8 is ​available for download.

The existing "nvenc7" codec compiles against it just fine.
TODO:

• rename the codec to just "nvenc" and use versioned checks with pkg-config.
• check for new useful API extensions we can use
• try to fix ticket:1260#comment:16 (especially now that the problem also occurs on other cards: ticket:1550#comment:4)
• update the buildbot

[Antoine Martin]

Interesting things found in the SDK 8 headers:

• encode from an opengl texture (NV_ENC_INPUT_RESOURCE_TYPE_OPENGL_TEX / NV_ENC_DEVICE_TYPE_OPENGL): could save us a lot of processing if we can stay on the GPU (#365)
• NV_ENC_MEMORY_HEAP should not be used any more (maybe the alternative will fix the lockups?)
• better "Long Term Reference" frames: could be used to send the whole window (including widgets, etc) encoded with lossless quality?
• sps / pps changes: meh
• "Motion Estimation" structures: meh
• NV_ENC_PIC_PARAMS_HEVC can now be used

So not a lot there.
r16083 renames the codec to "nvenc" and uses versionned pkgconfig checks.

[Antoine Martin]

• r16084 API additions (commented out)

This will do for now, the API fix will be tracked in #1550.

[Antoine Martin]

r16444 fixes RGB upload mode, so r16446 enables it by default again.

[Antoine Martin]

• with NVFBC (#1317), the pixel buffers were bigger than the pixel contents, so r16456 sliced them to the right size for the device upload - but r16457 makes this redundant: the right place to fix this was in the CUDA image wrapper since the buffers are used elsewhere and we can't just go around and fix them all - this change is kept in place because the slicing should be (almost) free with numpy arrays
• r16455: disable RGB mode on win32, no idea why it doesn't work "an API argument is invalid" error...

[migration script]

this ticket has been moved to: ​https://github.com/Xpra-org/xpra/issues/1552