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[[User:Multimedia Mike|Mike Melanson]] (mike -at- multimedia.cx) is the administrator and main point of contact for matters relating to the FFmpeg Summer of Code.
[[User:Multimedia Mike|Mike Melanson]] (mike -at- multimedia.cx) is the administrator and main point of contact for matters relating to the FFmpeg Summer of Code.
== Current Status ==
* March 5-12, 2007: Application period for mentoring organizations.
* March 6, 2007: Mike Melanson submitted FFmpeg mentoring application.
Waiting for acceptance...
== Project Proposals ==
=== Overview ===
Qualifications for a good Summer of Code proposal:
* discrete, well-defined, modular
* comprised of a series of measurable sub-goals
* based on open specs that are available free of charge
* based on complete specs
An example of a good proposal is the implementation of a decoder or demuxer for an as yet unsupported multimedia format, or an encoder or muxer for a format that can already be demuxed/decoded by FFmpeg.
An example of a less desirable proposal is one that's not as measurable, such as refactoring APIs. Bad proposals tend to be ones that would require touching a lot of core code.
To re-iterate:
* Localized/isolated code projects = ''good''
* Global code refactoring = ''bad''
=== JPEG2000 ===
=== Monkey's Audio Decoder ===
=== QCELP Decoder ===
=== Matrosa Muxer ===

Revision as of 16:16, 6 March 2007

Google is sponsoring their third annual Summer of Code for the summer of 2007. This entails sponsoring students to work on assorted open source projects as well as

FFmpeg was a Summer of Code participant in the summer of 2006 (here is the corresponding Wiki page) and hopes to be accepted again this year.

Mike Melanson (mike -at- multimedia.cx) is the administrator and main point of contact for matters relating to the FFmpeg Summer of Code.

Current Status

  • March 5-12, 2007: Application period for mentoring organizations.
  • March 6, 2007: Mike Melanson submitted FFmpeg mentoring application.

Waiting for acceptance...

Project Proposals

Overview

Qualifications for a good Summer of Code proposal:

  • discrete, well-defined, modular
  • comprised of a series of measurable sub-goals
  • based on open specs that are available free of charge
  • based on complete specs

An example of a good proposal is the implementation of a decoder or demuxer for an as yet unsupported multimedia format, or an encoder or muxer for a format that can already be demuxed/decoded by FFmpeg.

An example of a less desirable proposal is one that's not as measurable, such as refactoring APIs. Bad proposals tend to be ones that would require touching a lot of core code.

To re-iterate:

  • Localized/isolated code projects = good
  • Global code refactoring = bad

JPEG2000

Monkey's Audio Decoder

QCELP Decoder

Matrosa Muxer