[Ffmpeg-devel] Google Summer of Code 2007

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 07:11:51PM +0100, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 3/3/07, Derk-Jan Hartman <hartman at videolan.org> wrote:
> >On 3-mrt-2007, at 2:25, Justin Ruggles wrote:
> >> Harikrishnan Varma wrote:
> >>> Audio:
> >>> * MPEG-1 Layer 3 and MPEG-2 Layer 3. Both CBR & ABR are supported.
> >>> * AC-3
> >>> * MP3 Surround (In drffmpeg we use a dll supplied by Thomson)
> >>
> >> Now that the AC-3 decoder is hopefully close to being merged (waiting
> >> patiently), I think E-AC-3 would be a great SoC project.  There are
> >> clear decoding specs and this year there are samples to work with.
> >> It's
> >> also something that could be easily split out into incremental steps.
> >>
> >> If nobody does it through SoC, I'll probably try to implement it
> >> myself.
> >>  Personally, I really want a good E-AC-3 decoder so I can work on an
> >> encoder without having to install Windows in order to test it. :)
> >
> >
> >I have another idea for ffmpeg's GSoC.
> >Improving multichannel analog audio framework. As I understand,
> >multichannel audio is really weak now in ffmpeg, and especially audio
> >channel order concept is totally lost. I think this is one of the
> >last big missing things in avcodec, and that it is real important for
> >future versions of ffmpeg. It might also be something that google
> >will see as an important element for such a project. A possible
> >additional element could be channel reordering.
> >
> >I have worked on this for VLC's OSX audio module and have realized
> >the importance of proper channel designations in applications that
> >handle multichannel audio.
> 
> That makes me think of two vaporware that have been meant to be
> developped for ages:
> 
> libavmunge: ffmpeg video filters framework
> libavaudio: ffmpeg audio filters framework
> 
> Unfortunately, it seems like such tasks are too hard for a summer project. 
> :-(

port libmpcodecs to ffmpeg maybe

sure mplayers filter API has limitations but it doesnt seem that anyone
is writing something better ...

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