[FFmpeg-soc] soc qualification

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:24:26AM -0700, Sumit Sarkar wrote:
> >> > iii) AACS implementation
> >>
> >> Talk to the respective mentors (Kostya & Reimar) on IRC or via email.
> >
> > I am unfortunately almost never on IRC currently.
> > The problem with the AACS task is that it was originally meant to cover
> > HD-DVD and BluRay, however I feel we might have trouble getting HD-DVD
> > samples.
> > For BluRay the infrastructure to pass the key to the proper layer (stream
> > layer IMO here) is not even there.
> > So if you want to do this task I would suggest coming up with a design
> > of how the decryption would fit into FFmpeg and a minimal "demo"
> > implementation as far as you can get as a qualification task.
> > If others have comments that would be welcome, because I haven't thought
> > about this proposed task since over a year and am no longer 100% sure
> > about it anymore.
> >
> > Reimar
> 
> Thanks for the response, I am a newbie and would feel scared on a
> project where the expert
> is not sure of the project. I have started looking at the code only.
> 
> I would like to do a video project (not an audio project) and
> preferably not a Microsoft standard one.
> Please advise which project would be a good fit and also the
> corresponding qualification task.

you could do h264 decding optimizations, a qualification task for that
would be to make the decoder at least 0.1% faster overall
if you dont know where to start you should probably pick a different
task like dirac, vc1, ...

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