[Ffmpeg-devel] Google Summer Of Code

Måns Rullgård mru
Tue Apr 25 11:14:21 CEST 2006


Oded Shimon said:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 08:43:02AM +0100, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> writes:
>>
>> > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 05:23:40PM -0700, Mike Melanson wrote:
>> >> Luca Barbato wrote:
>> >> >Mike Melanson wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >>the meantime, project ideas:
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >- snow optimizations.
>> >>
>> >> Good idea.
>> >>
>> >> >- dirac native implementation.
>> >>
>> >> This is even more ambitious than the VC-1 and AAC implementations due to
>> >> lack of documentation. But in the end it's up to the student.
>> >
>> > Also more useless. No one uses dirac, for good reason. Is there really
>> > any use in spending effort supporting a codec for which there are no
>> > existing files that need to be played?
>>
>> Eh, how many Snow files are there in the wild?
>
> There are about 10 on my hd. :P

I don't see you running a public ftp server ;-)

> From the little I've heard about Dirac, sounds to me like Snow would be a
> more worthy target to pursuit than Dirac... Even from doom9 comparison.

That could be.  My point is that lack of content doesn't necessarily make
work on a codec pointless.

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M?ns Rullg?rd
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