[FFmpeg-devel] GSoC 2017

Pedro Arthur bygrandao at gmail.com
Thu Jan 26 19:34:24 EET 2017


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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