[FFmpeg-soc] SOC Qualifiction tasks

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 12:23:05PM +0100, Bartlomiej Wolowiec wrote:
> On czwartek, 13 marca 2008, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Id like to remind SOC students that everyone should select a seperate
> > qualification task. Having 2 students work on the same task is not good.
> > We had 2 last year who did and it caused problems, i would like to
> > avoid that this year.
> >
> > Currently we have (if i interpreted everyones mails correctly)
> > Sascha      VIVO demuxer (or vivo audio?)
> > Marcondes   VIVO demuxer (said so after sascha)
> > andi        metadata or MLP patch cleanup ?
> > thilani     MLP patch cleanup? (said so after andi)
> >
> > Also maybe students should add a note to the wiki below the qualification
> > task they selected.
> 
> Hello, 
>   in GSOC 2007 I wrote part of the code of E-AC3 decoder. 
> Unfortunately, because of incomplete documentation and lack of samples for a 
> long time I wasn't able to write all of it in the time of holidays, then, 
> when the academic year was started I hadn't got much free time. I know, that 
> it wasn't perfect, but I am keen to try once again to write something in 
> GSOC. So I would be grateful if you may tell me, do I still have any chance 
> to participate in GSOC 2008?

You do, it all of course strongly depends on the number of slots google will
give us. As well as your last year mentors oppinion ...


> I'm also keen to write some qualifying task (last year I wrote TIFF encoder 
> and LZW compression), so I have a question, is any of the following tasks 
> free: "Optimal huffman tables for (M)JPEG encoding", demuxer RL2 or Psygnosis 
> YOP ?

What about getting the EAC3 code into SVN? It likely wont be as easy as the
other qualification tasks but if you succeed that could have a strong effect
on your chances of being accepted again (especially if we have many more
qualified students than slots)

Anyway the current list of qualification tasks:

Sascha              RL2
Marcondes           VIVO demuxer
andi                MLP patch cleanup
thilani             MLP patch cleanup? (said so after andi)
Ramiro              mimic
Alexander Strange   SSE2 IDCT
Deep Pal            optimal mjpeg huffman table


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