[FFmpeg-devel] JPEG 2000

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 08:34:48PM +0530, Pradeepkumar Gayam wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 07:03:53PM -0800, rukhsana afroz wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > My name is Rukhsana Ruby. I am looking for Loren
> > > Merritt<http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=User:Pengvado>who
> > > was the mentor for JPEG 2000 encoder and decode in GSoC last  year.
> > > The
> > > project is unfinished and I want to finish this project. If anybody has
> > an
> > > idea how to get to Loren
> > > Merritt<http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=User:Pengvado>,
> > > please let me. I truly appreciate your help. I need to see the unfinished
> > > code, document s of this mini project.
> >
> > JPEG2000 is not easy, but if you think you are smarter than the previous
> > people who worked on it. And if you convince me that you are able to finish
> > the
> > project, then iam available to help/mentor this.
> >
> 
> What should one have to do to convince you. What would be
> the qualification task(or anything similar) for this? Finishing anything in
> small task will be ok?

a qualification task would be to choose a bug in the SOC jpeg2000 decoder.
IIRC when i tested it, it showed some artifacts/errors, fix one of these
artifact errors. This is hard and requires systematic comparission againt a
reference codec. That is adding lots of printf/av_log and comparing the outout
(unless you are very lucky in guessing where the bug is)

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