[FFmpeg-devel] GSOC 2012

[Paul B Mahol]

On 3/11/12, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 04:12:41PM +0000, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>> On 3/11/12, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 09:46:09AM +0100, Reimar Doeffinger wrote:
>> >> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 05:28:11AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> >> > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 09:20:33PM -0700, Michael Bradshaw wrote:
>> >> > > I would love to be involved, but I honestly don't feel qualified to
>> >> > > be
>> >> > > a
>> >> > > mentor.  I wouldn't mind working on extending image formats support
>> >> > > (currently 2nd tier), though I don't know if I want to do that as
>> >> > > an
>> >> > > actual
>> >> > > student or as a rogue contributor.  If it's something you'd like me
>> >> > > to
>> >> > > be a
>> >> > > part of, we can talk and perhaps I can apply.
>> >> >
>> >> > You are welcome to work as gsoc student on a task.
>> >> > We still need a mentor for it too though (and ffmpeg needs to be
>> >> > accepted for gsoc 2012)
>> >>
>> >
>> >> I wouldn't mind mentoring animated GIF for example (though for a
>> >> full project more is needed).
>> >
>> > is that so easy ?
>> > with dithering, maybe 2 pass mode to find a good palette?
>>
>> Huh, not this one. Instead of writing yet another hack it is
>> better to finally write PAL8 sws output.
>
> sure, pal8 support could be put in swscale by such gif project.
>
> btw, do you want to mentor some project ?

Any project I have in mind (and which I could mentor) appears to be
too easy for SoC.