[FFmpeg-soc] gsoc 2008 project

[Mike Melanson]

Sarath Lakshman | ശരത്ത് ലക്ഷ്മണ് wrote:
> Hi all,
> I would like to take up  the project to write GUI front end for ffmpeg for
> gsoc 2008. It was actually me who proposed the idea in the IRC channel. I
> have been looking for some GUI based tool for ffmpeg so that lots of tiny
> video cutting, conversion can be carried out under GNU/Linux easily. I'm
> pretty sure that this tool would be useful for lots of people working under
> linux. It would definitely provide easy access to functionalities provided
> by the ffmpeg.
> 
> *Project*
>  [edit<http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=FFmpeg_Summer_Of_Code_2008&action=edit&section=23>
> ]
> GUI for FFmpeg
> 
> Build a gui for the libs of FFmpeg. The main objective in this task is to
> extent the codecs and formats to support querying of features and good
> defaults. The actual GUI should just be a simple skeleton with support for
> encoding of multiple files. Most of the work will be done in the libs.
> 
> I would like to know about the qualifying task ?

Actually, we have been discussing this idea recently on the main 
development list. We don't think the GUI idea works as a GSoC project 
idea. In fact, I am going to remove it from the list now.

There are plenty of other projects to choose from, though.

-- 
	-Mike Melanson