[FFmpeg-devel] Proposal of two projects for GSoC

[Xiang, Haihao]

On Thu, 2021-02-25 at 19:05 +0800, Steven Liu wrote:
> Artem Galin <artem.galin at gmail.com> 于2021年2月24日周三 下午11:46写道：
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Please find the proposal for the following two projects for GSoC this year.
> > 
> > The FATE project had been proposed earlier already but I don't know why it
> > didn't happen.
> > 
> > I previously got the feedback from Thilo Borgmann and would be happy to get
> > feedback from the community as well.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > """""""""""""""""
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > FATE tests for HW acceleration
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Description: FFmpeg's FATE regression test system do not include validation
> > of hardware acceleration. This project is about to include these
> > hardware-specific regression tests to the FATE system. Since this project
> > requires access to corresponding hardware, it is not expected to cover the
> > whole range of hardware accelerators there are but to initialize some
> > useful tests for available hardware, most likely to include CPU
> > acceleration on Intel or AMD at least. Access to other hardware can also be
> > provided during the project, depending on the students requirements.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Expected results: Implement tests for the different hardware decoding,
> > encoding and transcoding capabilities there are.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Prerequisites: Good C and Makefile coding skills, basic familiarity with
> > Git.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Qualification Task: TBD
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Mentor: Artem G (artem.galin [at] intel [dot] com)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Backup Mentor: TBD
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > """""""""""""""""
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Title: oneAPI Video Processing Library (oneVPL) for CPU & GPU hardware
> > accelleration (https://www.oneapi.com/)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Description: Add support for oneVPL
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > The oneAPI project is developing a common cross-platform API for video
> > processing, including CPU and GPU hardware acceleration.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > At least Intel's MediaSDK (https://github.com/Intel-Media-SDK/MediaSDK <
> > https://github.com/Intel-Media-SDK/MediaSDK>;), providing the currently used
> > QSV API used for HW acceleration on Intel, will transition to implement the
> > oneAPI API, called oneVPL (https://github.com/oneapi-src/oneVPL).
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Therefore, this project aims to get FFmpeg ready for this new API to ensure
> > future availability of not only Intel's HW acceleration after the
> > transition to oneVPL but also for possible other implementations of the
> > oneAPI from other vendors.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Expected results: Implement a oneVPL library wrapper into FFmpeg.
> > 
> > Validate that media pipelines work with no regressions by supported feature
> > set and performance.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Prerequisites: Good C and Makefile coding skills, basic familiarity with
> > Git.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Qualification Task: TBD
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Mentor: Artem G (artem.galin [at] intel [dot] com)
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Backup Mentor: TBD
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > """""""""""""""""
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Artem.
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> Do you mean you want base on this patch:
> http://ffmpeg.org/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2020-September/269905.html


I refreshed the patches and prepared a new patchset since then. The new series
will be sent out after the new oneVPL release. We are discussing internally if
this is a good proposal for GSOC

Thanks
Haihao


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