[FFmpeg-devel] FFmpeg Small Task: Optimal Huffman Tables.

[briggers]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:29:25 +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 08:23:45PM +0530, briggers wrote:
>> I expect to have quite a bit of free time over the next few months
>> which I hope I can spend constructively by contributing to the
>> FFmpeg project. I was looking through the small tasks list on the
>> wiki at multimedia.cx [1] to get an idea where I could start. I was
>> thinking I could start with the implementation of optimal huffman
>> tables for (M)JPEG. I'll try to tread lightly, but I hope you'll
>> forgive any future brain farts. Thanks.
>
> Don't worry about mistakes, reviews are there for catching it
> (but if you are new it helps if you can forgive if reviews seem/are
> a bit harsh, people generally have only time to point out all that
> is bad, even if most is good :-) ).
> After reading the task I see I may have misunderstood it.
> I guess you mean adding a optimal huffman table for each frame
> individually (i.e. more the JPEG use case)?
> However there are also MJPEG formats that have one huffman table
> in the global extradata header, in which case a proper two-pass where
> the whole file is encoded first and the optimal table is calculated
> only in the second pass is necessary.
> But even without that I am not sure this is exactly the most
> straight-forward/easy of the tasks listed, but you are very
> welcome to do it :-)

Thanks for the tips. If you have some other "small task" in mind that 
perhaps would be easier or more straight forward and would better serve 
as an introduction to contributing to FFmpeg, I'd happily work on that 
instead.

> Reimar
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