[FFmpeg-soc] SOC Qualifiction tasks

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 05:39:01PM +0100, Bartlomiej Wolowiec wrote:
> On sobota, 15 marca 2008, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > What about getting the EAC3 code into SVN? It likely wont be as easy as the
> > other qualification tasks but if you succeed that could have a strong
> > effect on your chances of being accepted again (especially if we have many
> > more qualified students than slots)
> >
> > Anyway the current list of qualification tasks:
> >
> > Sascha              RL2
> > Marcondes           VIVO demuxer
> > andi                MLP patch cleanup
> > thilani             MLP patch cleanup? (said so after andi)
> > Ramiro              mimic
> > Alexander Strange   SSE2 IDCT
> > Deep Pal            optimal mjpeg huffman table
> 
> Since December 2007 my mentor from GSOC 2007, Justin Ruggles, has been working 
> on improving code. Just like in the summer, there still are no samples which 
> may allow to continue the work on the decoder. I wouldn't like to spoil his 
> conception of developing the decoder by changing something in the code, but 
> if he wishes, I can work on getting the EAC3 code into SVN. Moreover, as an 
> additional work,  I would like to work on YOP Playback System, as it's still 
> free.

See Justin's detailed answer, but I think showing dedication is more
valuable than another code sample in your case.  EAC-3 would be quite
valuable.

Diego