[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] Google Summer of Code 2012 pt2

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 04:27:32PM -0500, compn wrote:
> lets try this again.
> 
> http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=FFmpeg_Summer_of_Code_2012
> 
> after talking to j-b on irc, he said that an aacs implementation would
> just be duplication. we should leave it to libaacs, which libbluray
> already calls. so just apply the libbluray patch. for this reason i've
> removed aacs proposal from wiki.
> 
> i think hevc dec is an extremely difficult task for a new student.
> likewise vp7.
> 
> rtmpe proposal i feel is just duplicating librtmp from rtmpdump
> project. also adobe and some sites have switched to adobe fragmented
> http streaming.
> 
> the aac subtype and 3d bluray h264 mvc and dts-ma all sound like good
> proposals. but we dont want to duplicate anything that libav does.

I don't know if it can be made into a proper project easily and
if it is worth it, but our MPEG-4 decoder and possibly encoder
should have some issues to clear out.
For example there's some issues with non-mod 16 resolutions and
4mv where we are not correctly limiting them.
It would be interesting to investigate what other encoder and
decoders do and change our code to work as well as possible
in all cases.
Then there is the interlaced case where we have a TODO since
we just use a 2*8x8 instead of 16x8 MC function.
There might be more stuff.