FFmpeg Summer Of Code 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 sponsoring mentors in those same projects. Everyone wins.
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
- Specifications: As ITU-T recommendations, ISO publicly available standards
- Sources: JasPer, OpenJpeg, JJ2000 (in Java)
- Samples: http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/jpeg2000/
Monkey's Audio Decoder
- Sources: original sources, original sources port for non-win32 platforms, LGPLed Java implementation
QCELP Decoder
- Specification: QCELP decoder spec is c.s0020 and source is c.r0020
- Sample files: http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/qclp/
Mentor: Benjamin Larsson
E-AC3 Decoder
- Specification: http://www.atsc.org/standards/a_52b.pdf
- Samples: http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/evob/MAININTRO.EVO
GSM Decoder
Dirac Decoder
Dirac Encoder
i263 Decoder
- Specification: I263 Format Specification at MultimediaWiki
- Sources: GPLed I263 decoder
- Sample files: http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/V-codecs/I263/
VP6 Encoder
NUT Muxer
Matroska Muxer
MPEG TS/DVB Muxer
PAFF decoding for H.264/AVC
- Specification: ITU-T
- Sample files: http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/V-codecs/h264/PAFF