[FFmpeg-devel] GoC 2008 and H264 SVC decoder

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 01:32:40PM +0200, Robert Marston wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I was wondering if it were possible to add a qualification task for an 
> H.264 SVC decoder for the FFMPEG project. This is something I am 
> interested in developing. I know Jakob Rieckh sent an email a while back 
> stating he was interested in doing this but from what I can tell he has 
> since changed his mind about the project.

We have plenty of bugs in H.264 which need fixing (see roundup, the
mailinglist and just ask here). Also we still need a AVParser for h.264 which
fixes up all timestamps exactly and correctly from H.222 input.
I think these things could be a qualification task.


> 
> I realize there has been no formal specification released adding to 
> H.264 but judging by discussion on the JVT experts mailing list, 
> http://ftp3.itu.ch/av-arch/jvt-site/2007_06_Geneva/JVT-X201.zip is the 
> near final draft of the amendment. At the very least I would be looking 
> for a decoder capable of playing back the streams encoded using the JVT 
> SVC reference software.

Iam not fond of SVC, but if there is a mentor for this and google gives us
slots >= qualified students then i suspect it would be accepted, this of
course is the decission of the mentors not just mine ...
We had 8 slots last year and we have just 4 qualified student currently IIRC
Also we do not know yet what exact applications these students will submit
ramiro threatened MSVC which is disliked by many similar to SVC ...

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