[FFmpeg-devel] SOC Qualifiction tasks

[Alexander Strange]

On Mar 13, 2008, at 4:48 PM, Mike Melanson wrote:
> Alexander Strange wrote:
>> I'll add myself to the wiki under the SSE2 IDCT; it seems like not
>> enough work compared to the others, but I'd certainly use it more
>> myself.
>
> Are you saying that you want to be considered as a student?

Yes, whatever that means. You don't have to consider students anything  
until they submit the actual project proposal, do you?

By the way, I forgot that I don't have a wiki account?

>
>
>> Should we find a mentor first if we want to do something that's not  
>> on
>> the projects list? I'd like to try frame-based multithreaded decoding
>> using x264's method, but haven't worked out the details yet.
>
> Any takers out there to mentor this?

This isn't just for H.264 (though people ask for that the most); it  
should work for anything macroblock-based.