On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 11:44 PM, Thilo Borgmann <thilo.borgm...@mail.de> wrote: > 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?
I'll add myself as the backup mentor. - Umair _______________________________________________ ffmpeg-devel mailing list ffmpeg-devel@ffmpeg.org http://ffmpeg.org/mailman/listinfo/ffmpeg-devel
