[FFmpeg-devel] donation for snow

[Luca Abeni]

Hi Michael,

Michael Niedermayer wrote:
[...]
> code lives or dies depending on developers pushing things forward or not,
> and iam surely sad that noone is working on snow. Especially as there are
> many possibilities and ideas of what and how it could be improved both
> quality and speed wise.
> 
> 3 things that hurted snows development surely where
> * loosing the snow SOC project
> * having motion estimation and ratecontrol actively developed in x264 but
>   none of the improvments merged back.
> * very few people working on it ...
> 
> 
> Basically in the end its either, I finish snow alone or it dies ...
[...]

Maybe, it would be useful to have a list of things which have to be done
(listed in order of increasing difficulty, so that even not-so-skilled
developers can help...).
And maybe a list of references/papers/web links that one should study
in order to be able to do some snow work.

For example, I would love to help with snow (when I find some spare time :),
but I do not really know where to start from (and I do not know what I
need to study for working on snow).

Just an idea... (sorry if it has been already mentioned in the past)



				Luca