[FFmpeg-devel] GSoC 2009: FFmpeg is in

[Luca Abeni]

Hi Ronald,

Ronald S. Bultje wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (for all)
> 
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Luca Barbato <lu_zero at gentoo.org> wrote:
>> I started populating the wiki with small tasks, given recent Ronald push
>> would be interesting coming up with a SoC project to have ffmpeg
>> rtsp/rtp layer improved till we could replace live555 for the projects
>> using it (mplayer, vlc).
> 
> We've added a combination of tasks to the SoC project page. Comments
> appreciated.

I had a look at the projects page, and I believe that (as I just wrote
in a previous email), the first goal for the rtsp/rtp work should be to
cleanup the code and improve its quality (ensuring that the design is
consistent with the appropriate RFCs).
After this first step, I believe that there are some bugs to fix (RTCP
RR) and features to improve (better recovery after lost packets, handling
of packets arriving in the wrong order, etc...)
Only after this it will be possible to start adding new features.


> I'd personally like to see students propose a combination of tasks
> from the SoC page (or anything related that they come up with
> themselves) that they (1) are highly interested in, and (2) think they
> can complete in a reasonable timeframe. Luca and I both volunteer to
> be a fulltime mentor for it.

If there is an agreement on what I wrote above, I can volunteer as a mentor
too.


> For those interested in this as a SoC project: as a qualification
> task, please pick anything RTSP related from the small tasks or SoC
> project page. As with any qualification task, we want you to show us
> you can get stuff done (= in SVN).

I think a nice qualification task can be to get the H.263 depacketisation
patch that has been recently posted and improve it so that it can be
included in svn (not sure if this is too simple - an almost working patch
already exists - but being able to receive H.263 over RTP seems to be a
feature that many people want in svn).


				Luca