Am 30.01.17 um 18:41 schrieb Umair Khan: > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 5:45 PM, Thilo Borgmann <thilo.borgm...@mail.de> > wrote: >> Am 25.01.17 um 06:14 schrieb Umair Khan: >>> On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 7:45 AM, Michael Niedermayer <michae...@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. > > The floating point decoding test fails on qemu arm. May be we can put > fixing this issue as the qualification task, and rest all as the main > project.
Just added a project to the wiki. https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/SponsoringPrograms/GSoC/2017#MPEG-4ALScodecimprovements I included fate coverage. Feel free to add/modify it. Would you prefer to be mentor? would you like to be backup mentor? -Thilo _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
