[Ffmpeg-devel] GSoC'07 Wiki

[Baptiste Coudurier]

Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 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 ...

Current code needs cleaning/reviewing first, coding HE-AAC support onto
it will only lead to harder reviewing/cleaning process if someone ever
wish to and we cannot expect that to be done as google soc project.

>>>>     * 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"?

Non realistic, an utopia.

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