[FFmpeg-devel] GSoC project task

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 03:54:37PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 01:42:12PM +0100, Reimar D?ffinger wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 05:54:58PM +0000, Jai Menon wrote:
> > > I'm also very interested in the Speex decoder, and possibly WMV3 
> > > encoder but i don't know if any mentors are willing to take up any of these 
> > > tasks.
> > 
> > Concerning the Speex decoder: I am willing to act as mentor for that
> > _if_ I conclude that I am suitable for it (I will have to discuss some
> > more with a few other people).
> 
> The Xiph guys have (among other FFmpeg improvements) a Speex decoder for
> FFmpeg listed on their SoC ideas wiki.  I'm not sure if they will have a
> slot for it, but I'm quite confident that they would help out with
> mentoring.  Shall I try to put you in contact with them?

Oh, I wasn't aware. If they have someone who can answer Speex-specifc
questions or just someone to extend the documentation to be complete (in
particular, all the tables are missing from the docs I found, they
should not be hard to find in the speex code, but that is just
additional effort).