[FFmpeg-devel] GSOC 2012

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 04:12:41PM +0000, Paul B Mahol wrote:
> On 3/11/12, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 09:46:09AM +0100, Reimar Doeffinger wrote:
> >> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 05:28:11AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >> > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 09:20:33PM -0700, Michael Bradshaw wrote:
> >> > > I would love to be involved, but I honestly don't feel qualified to be
> >> > > a
> >> > > mentor.  I wouldn't mind working on extending image formats support
> >> > > (currently 2nd tier), though I don't know if I want to do that as an
> >> > > actual
> >> > > student or as a rogue contributor.  If it's something you'd like me to
> >> > > be a
> >> > > part of, we can talk and perhaps I can apply.
> >> >
> >> > You are welcome to work as gsoc student on a task.
> >> > We still need a mentor for it too though (and ffmpeg needs to be
> >> > accepted for gsoc 2012)
> >>
> >
> >> I wouldn't mind mentoring animated GIF for example (though for a
> >> full project more is needed).
> >
> > is that so easy ?
> > with dithering, maybe 2 pass mode to find a good palette?
> 
> Huh, not this one. Instead of writing yet another hack it is
> better to finally write PAL8 sws output.

sure, pal8 support could be put in swscale by such gif project.

btw, do you want to mentor some project ?

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Michael     GnuPG fingerprint: 9FF2128B147EF6730BADF133611EC787040B0FAB

Its not that you shouldnt use gotos but rather that you should write
readable code and code with gotos often but not always is less readable
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