So, the projects are participating in the Google Summer of Code for the 2012 season. (While Libav is the project officially accepted to particular, I still refer to the projects because FFmpeg will also benefit).
Here are the students, projects, and mentors for this summer:
- Andrew D’Addesio is working on an Opus Decoder, mentored by Justin Ruggles
- Guillaume Martres is working on an HEVC video decoder, mentored by Mashiat Sarker Shakkhar
- Jan Ekström is working on an LGPL Ut Video encoder, mentored by Kostya Shishkov
- Jordi Ortiz is working to rewrite avserver, mentored by Luca Barbato
- Samuel Pitoiset is working on an RTMP[E|S|T|TE] protocol implementation, mentored by Martin Storsjö
Wish them luck– these are some ambitious projects.
Ambitious project was VP7 decoder (just imagine — an opensource On2 VP7 decoder funded by Google), too bad there was no good student to pick it up.
Wont supporting RTMPS/RTMPE/RTMPTE violate the DMCA?
@Jonathan: There’s only one way to find out for certain.
3 rewrites (librtmp / ffserver / libutvideo ) and 2 codecs no one uses.
i guess ffmpeg has rewritten a lot of libs e.g. libopencore liba52 libdca so why am i complaining?
Opus is also sort of a rewrite, because there is a liberally-licensed refernce code by Xiph…
I hope the HEVC project goes well and provides something useful (hopefully not just unfinished code that will bitrot in a separate repository for years before being scrapped due to some rewrite of something).
I am not really mentoring HEVC, just for the record. What I wanted wast to get the VP7 decoder done which looked really interesting (because there was RE involved) and appropriate for a GSoC project. Could not find a student … :(
@Shakkhar: I wouldn’t expect the VP7 task to require any RE. The official format spec was ‘leaked’ and subsequently mirror here at multimedia.cx:
http://multimedia.cx/mirror/VP7_Data_Format_and_Decoder_Overview.pdf