[FFmpeg-devel] H.264 interlaced PAFF development and donations part 2

[Neil Terry]

We'd like to thank those who responded to our offer, however no one has
come forward to commit to the project.
As such we are prepared to up the ante. My company is now offering a
donation of $5000 to the developer/team who can develop the code to
support interlaced PAFF.
I am also aware of another offer of $2500 from another company.
So the pot is now at $7500 from multiple sources now. 
Any takers?
Any other donation offers?

On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 10:36 -0600, Neil Terry wrote:
> As some of you are aware the lack of interlaced PAFF support in the
> H.264 decoder is becoming an increasingly painful problem. Hardware
> H.264 manufacturers have begun mandating the use of PAFF at all times.
> For example Tandberg in their new 8000 series of encoders no longer
> allows users to disable PAFF encoding when using H.264.
> 
> The situation will become dire sooner than later as encoder
> manufacturers stop selling the older generation (non-PAFF or PAFF
> optional) encoders and customers begin demanding the newer generation
> (PAFF mandatory) encoders with their advanced features such as
> sub-second delay encoding.
> 
> Could the developers knowlegable in this area discuss the scope of
> development needed to add PAFF support, and time required to do this.
> 
> Finally my company is prepared to offer a donation (>$2500) to help spur
> PAFF development and make it a project priority. I'm sure many others
> who find themselves in the same situation would donate as well.
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