[FFmpeg-devel] GSoC 2008 Students Announced

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 08:23:24PM +0000, Arpi wrote:
[...]
> "  LGPL reimplementation of GPL sws_scale parts  "
> 
> heh? why dont Michael simply puts his code under LGPL?
> it's just wasting of programmer resources to reimplement it...

The C code which i wrote is under LGPL, the asm i wrote wont be rewritten.
What this is about is rewriting walkens code. Someone already tried it
but walken claimed copyright on the result so he got scared ...
The rule now is the student MUST NOT look at the code but just its
output and how its used from my code.
Also the task has a few more goals, heres the text from the wiki:

LGPL reimplementation of GPL sws_scale parts 

Primary goals: 

*Clear separation of architecture specific code (asm) into separate
 directories. 
*Rewriting the GPL yuv table init code (without looking at the code
 but just the code using the tables and the actually generated tables) 
*All obvious simplifications & cleanups 
*Ensure that the swscaler can be (optionally) run in a bitexact mode for
 regression tests. 


Secondary goals: 

*Ensure that every conversion is (optionally) supported in a way which 
 does not subsample chroma more than the worse of input and output. 
*Make the rgb->yuv and yuv->yuv code support the different yuv types 
 which are set via sws_setColorspaceDetails() 
*Make sure all RGB input formats are (optionally) supported without being
 converted to a intermediate 8bit per component YUV, that is they should
 either be scaled in RGB space or scaled in >8bit per component YUV. (later
 is easier in the current architecture) 
*Make architecture specific code bitexact where this is possible without
 speedloss and easy.


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