From: "Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet" <reyna...@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Reynaldo H. Verdejo Pinochet <reyna...@osg.samsung.com>
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+ <h3 id="gsoc2016finalreport">October 30th, 2016, Results: Summer Of Code
2016.</h3>
+ <p>
+ This has been a long time coming but we wanted to give a proper closure to
our participation in this run of the program and it takes time. Sometimes it's
just to get the final report for each project trimmed down, others, is
finalizing whatever was still in progress when the program finished: final
patches need to be merged, TODO lists stabilized, future plans agreed; you name
it.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ Without further ado, here's the silver-lining for each one of the projects
we sought to complete during this Summer of Code season:
+ </p>
+ <h4>FFv1 (Mentor: Michael Nierdermayer)</h4>
+ <p>
+ Stanislav Dolganov designed and implemented experimental support for
motion estimation and compensation in the lossless FFV1 codec. The design and
implementation is based on the snow video codec, which uses OBMC. Stanislav's
work proved that significant compression gains can be achieved with inter frame
compression. FFmpeg welcomes Stanislav to continue working beyond this proof of
concept and bring its advances into the official FFV1 specification within the
IETF.
+ </p>
+ <h4>Self test coverage (Mentor: Michael Niedermayer)</h4>
+ <p>
+ Petru Rares Sincraian added several self-tests to FFmpeg and successfully
went through the in-some-cases tedious process of fine tuning tests parameters
to avoid known and hard to avoid problems, like checksum mismatches due to
rounding errors on the myriad of platforms we support. His work has improved
the code coverage of our self tests considerably.
+ </p>
+ <h4>MPEG-4 ALS encoder implementation (Mentor: Thilo Borgmann)</h4>
+ <p>
+ Umair Khan updated and integrated the ALS encoder to fit in the current
FFmpeg codebase. He also implemented a missing feature for the ALS decoder that
enables floating-point sample decoding. FFmpeg support for MPEG-4 ALS has been
improved significantly by Umair's work. We welcome him to keep maintaining his
improvements and hope for great contributions to come.
+ </p>
+ <h4>Tee muxer improvements (Mentor: Marton Balint)</h4>
+ <p>
+ Ján Sebechlebský's generic goal was to improve the tee muxer so it
tolerated blocking IO and allowed transparent error recovery. During the design
phase it turned out that this functionality called for a separate muxer, so Ján
spent his summer working on the so-called FIFO muxer, gradually fixing issues
all over the codebase. He succeeded in his task, and the FIFO muxer is now part
of the main repository, alongside several other improvements he made in the
process.
+ </p>
+ <h4>TrueHD encoder (Mentor: Rostislav Pehlivanov)</h4>
+ <p>
+ Jai Luthra's objective was to update the out-of-tree and pretty much
abandoned MLP (Meridian Lossless Packing) encoder for libavcodec and improve it
to enable encoding to the TrueHD format. For the qualification period the
encoder was updated such that it was usable and throughout the summer,
successfully improved adding support for multi-channel audio and TrueHD
encoding. Jai's code has been merged into the main repository now. While a few
problems remain with respect to LFE channel and 32 bit sample handling, these
are in the process of being fixed such that effort can be finally put in
improving the encoder's speed and efficiency.
+ </p>
+ <h4>Motion interpolation filter (Mentor: Paul B Mahol)</h4>
+ <p>
+ Davinder Singh investigated existing motion estimation and interpolation
approaches from the available literature and previous work by our own: Michael
Niedermayer, and implemented filters based on this research. These filters
allow motion interpolating frame rate conversion to be applied to a video, for
example, to create a slow motion effect or change the frame rate while smoothly
interpolating the video along the motion vectors. There's still work to be done
to call these filter 'finished', which is rather hard all things considered,
but we are looking optimistic at their future.
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ And that's it. We are happy with the results of the program and immensely
thankful for the opportunity of working with such an amazing set of students.
We can be a tough crowd but our mentors did an amazing job at hand holding our
interns through their journey. Thanks also to Google for this wonderful program
and to everyone that made room in their busy lives to help making GSoC2016 a
success. See you in 2017!
+ </p>
<h3 id="sdl1">September 24th, 2016, SDL1 support dropped.</h3>
<p>
Support for the SDL1 library has been dropped, due to it no longer being
maintained (as of
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