[FFmpeg-devel] GSOC 2012

[compn]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:22:51 +0000, Paul B Mahol wrote:
>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.

any project i think up is too hard for students. reverse
engineering and wavelet codecs are very difficult.

-compn