[FFmpeg-devel] GSOC 2012

Reimar Döffinger Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de
Sun Mar 11 19:34:08 CET 2012


On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 05:22:51PM +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.

If they are not familiar with FFmpeg it might not be.
Otherwise it might be possible to e.g. just group two into one task.


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