[FFmpeg-soc] soc qualification

[Sumit Sarkar]

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> Sumit Sarkar <govsarkar at ...> writes:
>
>> I would like to qualify for the VC-1 Interlaced support..
>> I am going to work on the 16-bit VQA Video Decoder as the qualification task.
>
> I believe VC-1 interlaced would be a very welcome contribution. I don't want to
> drive you away from Dirac, but note that not many encoders were ever finished in
> GSoC indicating encoders are (even) more difficult to write than decoders.
>
> You could also propose to Kostya to start with the actual task as a
> qualification, some header parsing would be an idea (note: just an idea, perhaps
> Kostya would prefer if you don't start with the actual task).
>
> Carl Eugen

Thanks Carl for the advise. I am a new to this and Kostya approved of
the qualification task.
I will stick to it. My exams finish today and I will try to finish the
qual task over the weekend.

Regards
GS