[Ffmpeg-devel] GSoC'07 Wiki

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 01:18:28PM +0100, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> 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.

Well, high time to get it merged then :-)

> >>>>     * 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.

Why?  All those ideas sound pretty good to me ...

Diego