[Ffmpeg-devel] GSoC'07 Wiki

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:21:42AM +0100, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> 
> Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 11:06:36AM +0100, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> >> Mike Melanson wrote:
> >>> Summer of Code is happening earlier this year. This week is the time to
> >>> apply. I just submitted the FFmpeg application and created a Wiki page
> >>> for ideas:
> >>>
> >>> http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Summer_Of_Code_2007
> >>>
> >>> Start adding your ideas. I have populated the page with some ideas I
> >>> have already read from the list and other sources. Please adhere to the
> >>> guidelines for good vs. bad proposals, also listed on the page.
> >> Can the wiki now be moderated please ?
> >>
> >> For those who did not check it yet:
> >>
> >>     * 3.2 JPEG2000
> >>     * 3.3 Monkey's Audio Decoder
> >>     * 3.4 QCELP Decoder
> >>     * 3.5 Finish LC AAC decoder and implement HE-AAC(+)
> >>
> >> IMHO does not need a soc project.
> > 
> > Why?  I'd love to see AAC implemented and I don't see why it wouldn't
> > need a SoC project ...
> 
> Code is already present in aac trunk, and google already dedicated a
> project for it last year, it failed to be integrated yet and integration
> is IMHO not a sufficient reason to propose it again.

Only code for LC AAC exists and is not finished, HE-AAC is not yet
implemented.  This sounds like a good SoC project to me ...

> >>     * 3.6 E-AC3 Decoder
> >>     * 3.7 GSM Decoder
> >>     * 3.8 Dirac Encoder AND Decoder
> >>     * 3.9 i263 Decoder
> >>     * 3.10 VP6 Encoder
> >>     * 3.11 NUT Muxer
> >>     * 3.12 Matroska Muxer
> >>     * 3.13 MPEG TS/DVB Muxer
> >>     * 3.14 PAFF decoding for H.264/AVC
> >>     * 3.15 MXF Muxer
> >>     * 3.16 RV30/RV40 decoders
> >>
> >> is that a dream ?
> > 
> > Why?  RV30/RV40 needs to be reverse engineered, the rest seems plausible
> > to me ...
> 
> What do you mean by "the rest" ?

I mean everything *except* RV30/RV40 sounds plausible.  Now what do you
mean by "is that a dream"?

Diego