[FFmpeg-devel] Fw: GSoC 2025: Please review your Project Ideas lists

[Kieran Kunhya]

On Fri, 14 Feb 2025, 21:29 Steven Liu, <lingjiujianke at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Kieran Kunhya via ffmpeg-devel <ffmpeg-devel at ffmpeg.org>于2025年2月15日
> 周六04:21写道：
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>> On Fri, Feb 14, 2025 at 7:28 PM Michael Niedermayer
>> <michael at niedermayer.cc> wrote:
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>> > Hi everyone
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>> > Please help improve the gsoc 2025 page
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>> > 2 ideas are missing backup mentors, if you are able please
>> > add yourself to them as backup mentor
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>> > Also please add more ideas!
>> > And help review the page and ideas to ensure it is all in good shape.
>> >
>> > thx
>> >
>> > ----- Forwarded message from summerofcode-noreply at google.com -----
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>> > Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:38:55 -0800
>> > From: summerofcode-noreply at google.com
>> > To: michael at niedermayer.cc
>> > Subject: GSoC 2025: Please review your Project Ideas lists
>> >
>> > Google Summer of Code
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>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > We are carefully reviewing the 2025 GSoC Org applications and are
>> discovering an alarming number of orgs with only a couple of ideas or ideas
>> that haven't been updated since 2023 or 2024. Please make sure your project
>> ideas are all in your lists NOW, we can only review what is there and if
>> you have an incomplete list you risk your org being rejected this year.
>> >
>> > We have more people on our review team than ever before and are taking
>> a very close look at all applications this year, including individual ideas
>> and discovering quite a few that are way overscoped for GSoC and even a few
>> that are inappropriate ideas for the program. Please review your lists, Org
>> Admins it is your responsibility to be sure the Project Ideas represent
>> your org appropriately.
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>> The WHIP one is obviously way too overscoped and challenging for a
>> student.
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> Hi Kieran,
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>     There have many references projects implementation that,
> https://obsproject.com/kb/whip-streaming-guide
> And gst.
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> And there have lots of implementation code about in ffmpeg but not
> submitted to ffmpeg, I think I can guide students do it.
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> Thanks for your focusing and I think it would be successful in GSoC
> Timeline and I think you will give more details advice when students
> implementing WHIP, of course that will more nice if you can be a mentor to
> WHIP.😄
>
>
>> Kieran
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> Thanks
> Steven
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Hi Steven,

WebRTC is a very complex protocol and even more difficult to implement in
FFmpeg (owing to lack of event loop).

Could you potentially constrain the project to a small subset? It clearly
is a lot more than 359 hours of work.

Regards,
Kieran Kunhya