[FFmpeg-soc] gsoc 2008 project

[Robert Swain]

On 22/03/2008, Robert Swain <robert.swain at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 22/03/2008, Mike Melanson <mike at multimedia.cx> wrote:
>  > Sarath Lakshman | ശരത്ത് ലക്ഷ്മണ് wrote:
>
> >  > 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.
>
> Mike, I think that's a bit too hasty. The project suggestion implies a
>  lot of work on the libraries and not so much on the GUI itself. Maybe
>  the task shouldn't be considered a GUI task but something more
>  specific to the libraries. I wanted to know what the original author
>  of the task proposal had in mind for the work on the libraries. We
>  should evaluate this before striking it from the potential projects in
>  my opinion. We might be able to get something useful out of this.

The other thread was about working on a mainstream GUI, this doesn't
seem to be that at all.

Rob