[FFmpeg-devel] GSoC 2017

[Mayank Agarwal]

Hi,

I am interested in joining one of the projects.

Regards
Mayank


On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 11:04 PM, Pedro Arthur <bygrandao at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> I can be a backup mentor if needed.
>
> 2017-01-25 10:15 GMT-02:00 Thilo Borgmann <thilo.borgmann at mail.de>:
>
> > Am 25.01.17 um 06:14 schrieb Umair Khan:
> > > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at
> >
> > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 03:39:09PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > >>> Hi all
> > >>>
> > >>> GSoC 2017 mentor org registration has opened a few days ago
> > >>>
> > >>> Our current ideas page lists just a single mentor and single
> sugestion
> > >>> http://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/SponsoringPrograms/GSoC/2017
> > >>>
> > >>> About the Suggested project
> > >>> It is a hard design task which few students would be
> > >>> capable to do. I dont know if someone already knows a student who is
> > >>> qualified for this and who would be available in FFmpeg GSoC but if
> not
> > >>> I think finding a qualified student will be hard or require some luck
> > >>> and success with a less than qualified student unlikely.
> > >>> At least thats what my gut feeling says based on past years
> > >>>
> > >>> About the number of ideas
> > >>> one is not enough, and i think its a waste of time if we apply with
> > >>> such short list, i doubt we would be accepted with one idea and one
> > >>> mentor
> > >>>
> > >>> About the number of mentors
> > >>> one is not enough
> > >>
> > >> ok so our page now contains
> > >> 4 project ideas and 3 mentors
> > >> big thanks to the people volunteering and adding them
> > >>
> > >> Can we get a few more ?
> > >> Ideal would be numbers similar to previous years
> > >> We wont have a student for each idea we list most likely.
> > >> If we list just 4 we might have just 1 or 2 students, having a
> > >> wider range of ideas to select from would increase the number of
> > >> contributions and number of potential new developers joining.
> > >
> > > One idea would be to finish rest of the ALS codec tasks.
> > > What's remaining is :-
> >
> > > 1. Implement RLS LMS mode in the decoder.
> >
> > See 3.
> >
> >
> > > 2. Get the encoder merged into the main repository.
> >
> > This was part of last years (yours) project... I admit that this has not
> > yet happened is due to my lack of time for working on it with you (which
> > will most likely change soon :) )
> > However I would not like to have this iterated but being finished by the
> > start of the next GSoC round (which basically means by yesterday...).
> >
> >
> > > 3. Encoder featureset still lacks support for floating point sample
> > > data encoding.
> >
> > 1. & 3. could be part of a "complete feature set for ALS"-project. Both
> > are too little for separated projects and too much for a qualification
> > task. But I like the idea of a comprehensive feature set project. You
> came
> > up with this idea first so if you're up to mentor it, go ahead and add it
> > to the wiki. Otherwise I'll do it during the weekend.
> >
> > -Thilo
> >
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