[FFmpeg-devel] GSoC 2017

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Wed, Feb 8, 2017 at 8:21 PM, Michael Niedermayer <michael at niedermayer.cc>
wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 01:03:06AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 08, 2017 at 09:07:09PM -0200, Pedro Arthur wrote:
> > > 2017-01-27 1:01 GMT-02:00 Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>:
> > >
> > > > we need more (backup) mentors, so yes, i think its needed
> > > >
> > > > also if you want to be mentor for a swscale related project i would
> > > > support that idea
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi, sorry for the late reply.
> > > I think  implementing a cascade-less swscale could be a good project.
> > > If you think  it is doable for a GSOC project, I'm fine with it.
> >
> > It depends on the student, it doesnt sound too complex but students
> > abilities varies alot and its quite possible there will be noone
> > interrested in any specific project
> >
> >
> > > I just doesn't know a good qualification task.
> >
> > Something which shows that the student can work with the swscale
> > codebase, not something that is just copy and paste work
> >
> > Either way, this can be added later
>
> also in absence of any other ideas, YCoCg support may be a
> qualification task. Maybe not the best choice but certainly usefull
> on its own


Before we get into adding new things to swscale: I will veto anything that
doesn't use the provided API in libavutil. So no new SWS_CS_*.

And yes I'm serious about this.

Ronald