[FFmpeg-devel] Google Summer of Code Qualification

[Thilani]

What type of projects you going to offer for GSOC participants .I m
interested to know about your project ideas

On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 4:27 AM, andy g <agocke at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'll definitely look into it - starting next week is Spring Break, so
> I'll have a week to get acquainted with the code and clean up MLP.
>
> -Andy
>
> On Mar 11, 2008, at 12:40 AM, Justin Ruggles wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > andy g wrote:
> >> Hey everyone,
> >>      I have been using ffmpeg for years now and every time I use it I
> >> like
> >> it more. I know the C language (although I mostly program in Java
> >> right now) and I think it would be great if I could work on it over
> >> the summer in Google Summer of Code. Specifically, the ALAC-LC
> >> implementation really interests me, as I was transcoding files from
> >> iTunes before and I noticed that there was no ALAC encoder -
> >> something
> >> I think I could fix.
> >
> > That's great that you are interested.  Before you apply, I would
> > highly
> > recommend spending some time looking through the FFmpeg source and
> > reading up on lossless audio in general.
> >
> > As far as ALAC is concerned, it is not something I would implement
> > myself, but I would gladly mentor such a project.  I have considered
> > trying it myself in the past, but decided against it for silly
> > philosophical reasons. :)
> >
> > I have added some very basic goals for an ALAC encoder to the
> > Multimedia
> > Wiki page for SoC '08.  If you (or any other applicant) want to know
> > more specifics about what such a project might entail, feel free to
> > ask.
> >
> >>      Regarding the qualification, I also noticed that ffmpeg doesn't
> have
> >> the ability to pass along metadata tags when it transcodes music. I
> >> was wondering if my qualification could be to write a metadata tag
> >> reader/writer for certain media files. For mp3, the LGPL'd
> http://id3lib.sourceforge.net/
> >>  should probably do, but I could probably write my own implementation
> >> if necessary (which I bet will probably be necessary for MP4/ALAC/AAC
> >> tags).
> >
> > FFmpeg already has very basic tagging support.  I don't know the full
> > list, but in a quick search I was able to find ID3 tags, Vorbis
> > comments, APE tags, and iTunes mp4 tags.  Granted, the current support
> > is very limited.  I'm not sure what the demand is for a more complete
> > metadata system. libavtag? ;)  To me that seems more like a full SoC
> > project, not a qualification task, but if a student has the time and
> > will to do it (and do it well), I would welcome it.
> >
> >>      If this is too simple for your test I could do something else, but
> >> when I used ffmpeg last time this struck me as something that was
> >> missing from ffmpeg that would probably be pretty useful in certain
> >> transcoding operations.
> >
> > As for me personally...what I am looking for in a qualification task,
> > beyond good programming skills, is clean, well-documented code, good
> > communication, and follow-through.  Having to clean up both the AC3
> > decoder and the E-AC3 decoder from previous summers has been somewhat
> > annoying.
> >
> > For example, something like cleaning up the MLP patch might have a
> > somewhat steep learning curve, but that's the kind of skills I really
> > want to see. :)
> >
> > -Justin
> >
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