[FFmpeg-devel] GSoC 2017 MPEG-4 ALS codec project

[Thilo Borgmann]

Am 18.02.17 um 22:55 schrieb Thilo Borgmann:
> Hi,
> 
>> My name is George and I am a PhD student at Stanford. I am interested
>> in the MPEG-4 ALS codec project for this year's GSoC program.
>>
>> Should I go straight into attempting to fix a bug of ALS on the
>> tracker as a qualification task and if so do you have a specific one
>> to recommend?
> 
> yes you might do your qualification task right away. 
> 
> Hmm... you might try to fix #5297. If you encounter the use of get_unary() have a close look at this. IIRC it has to handle the termination bit differently than default to fix this issue. (I might misremember, though).
> 
> We should continue this thread off-list and mail directly for discussion.

Although, be aware that the list of accepted organizations is yet to be published - we do not know yet if FFmpeg will be part of GSoC 2017.

-Thilo