[Ffmpeg-devel] Google Summer of Code 2007

[Derk-Jan Hartman]

On 3-mrt-2007, at 2:25, Justin Ruggles wrote:
> Harikrishnan Varma wrote:
>> Audio:
>> * MPEG-1 Layer 3 and MPEG-2 Layer 3. Both CBR & ABR are supported.
>> * AC-3
>> * MP3 Surround (In drffmpeg we use a dll supplied by Thomson)
>
> Now that the AC-3 decoder is hopefully close to being merged (waiting
> patiently), I think E-AC-3 would be a great SoC project.  There are
> clear decoding specs and this year there are samples to work with.   
> It's
> also something that could be easily split out into incremental steps.
>
> If nobody does it through SoC, I'll probably try to implement it  
> myself.
>  Personally, I really want a good E-AC-3 decoder so I can work on an
> encoder without having to install Windows in order to test it. :)


I have another idea for ffmpeg's GSoC.
Improving multichannel analog audio framework. As I understand,  
multichannel audio is really weak now in ffmpeg, and especially audio  
channel order concept is totally lost. I think this is one of the  
last big missing things in avcodec, and that it is real important for  
future versions of ffmpeg. It might also be something that google  
will see as an important element for such a project. A possible  
additional element could be channel reordering.

I have worked on this for VLC's OSX audio module and have realized  
the importance of proper channel designations in applications that  
handle multichannel audio.

Of course it would require heavy mentoring, because it would touch a  
lot of API.

DJ