[FFmpeg-devel] GSoC 2017

[Umair Khan]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 03:39:09PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Hi all
> >
> > GSoC 2017 mentor org registration has opened a few days ago
> >
> > Our current ideas page lists just a single mentor and single sugestion
> > http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/SponsoringPrograms/GSoC/2017
> >
> > About the Suggested project
> > It is a hard design task which few students would be
> > capable to do. I dont know if someone already knows a student who is
> > qualified for this and who would be available in FFmpeg GSoC but if not
> > I think finding a qualified student will be hard or require some luck
> > and success with a less than qualified student unlikely.
> > At least thats what my gut feeling says based on past years
> >
> > About the number of ideas
> > one is not enough, and i think its a waste of time if we apply with
> > such short list, i doubt we would be accepted with one idea and one
> > mentor
> >
> > About the number of mentors
> > one is not enough
>
> ok so our page now contains
> 4 project ideas and 3 mentors
> big thanks to the people volunteering and adding them
>
> Can we get a few more ?
> Ideal would be numbers similar to previous years
> We wont have a student for each idea we list most likely.
> If we list just 4 we might have just 1 or 2 students, having a
> wider range of ideas to select from would increase the number of
> contributions and number of potential new developers joining.

One idea would be to finish rest of the ALS codec tasks.
What's remaining is :-
1. Implement RLS LMS mode in the decoder.
2. Get the encoder merged into the main repository.
3. Encoder featureset still lacks support for floating point sample
data encoding.

- Umair