[FFmpeg-soc] soc qualification

[Kostya]

On Thu, Apr 01, 2010 at 11:56:34PM -0700, Sumit Sarkar wrote:
> 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.

It does not matter to me much since I have both VC-1 interlaced header
parsing and 16-bit VQA support patches buried somewhere :P
 
> Regards
> GS